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Quotes About Fever

Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards...
~ Edward Gorey
Creo que lo que me excitaba de tal manera extrema era la idea poética de morir haciendo el amor. Además, la debilidad aliada a la fiebre me sumergían en esa zona sin relación con lo cotidiano en la que siempre deposité mi única esperanza y que hasta esa noche yacía en un imperio soñado de acceso imposible a causa de su irrealidad.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Things come and go in the news cycle like waves of fever.
~ Adam Curtis
Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days. Doctors could not be certain whether some of these symptoms were the result of radiation or nervous shock.
~ John Hersey
In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words: from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading.
~ Rick Perlstein
I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.
~ Kate Chopin
By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe's lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again
~ Kate Forsyth
Why must beliefs always seek to invade their victims, to fill them with fever, and then to infect yet others like a plague? Why
~ David Zindell
If you are trying to frighten me, I assure you, my imagination is every bit as Gothic as yours. I can well imagine the poisoned tea or the slim dagger in the night and the claims that I succumbed to a fever while everyone rallies around my infant," I said repressively.
~ Deanna Raybourn
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
~ Anais Nin
Febrile patients with head trauma, subarachnoid hemorrhage, or stroke should receive antipyretics to prevent temperature-related increases in cerebral oxygen utilization.
~ Jean-Louis Vincent
Perhaps [he had] persevered for too long, in the face of too many obstacles, his hair proof of his tenacity - the stark black streaked with white or, in certain light, stark white shot through with black, each strand of white attributable to the jungle fever (so cold it burned, his skin glacial), each strand of black a testament to being alive afterwards.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
He remembered suddenly how his uncle had told him that men were sometimes stricken with a strange fever of the wilderness, when the seduction of the uninhabited wastes caught them so fiercely that they went forth, half fascinated, half deluded, to their death.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
~ William Penn
I was in bed with cold sweats, all different symptoms. It was really terrible for a long time, and when the fever went away there was all this weakness and tiredness.
~ Robin Soderling
I'm a huge pop music lover. I do love the immediacy, the organic fever that happens when a pop track is so infectious.
~ Christine and the Queens
You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening at the wrong end of a very long tunnel.
~ Richard Siken
You are a fever I am learning to live with.
~ Richard Siken
That's all war is - a consuming fever: a period of delirium and insanity, of misery, disappointment, discomfort, anxiety, despair, waste, weariness, boredom, brutality, death; and yet to every man in every war there comes a day worth living for: a day when a lifetime of excitement is packed into a few short hours.
~ Kenneth Roberts
Out in the fjord I dragged myself up at once, wet with fever and exhaustion, and gazed landwards, and bade farewell for the present to the town – to Christiania, where the windows gleamed so brightly in all the homes.
~ Knut Hamsun
Den lange jærnbanereise har rystet sammen alle de forskjellige dele i vore hoder, det danser mange løse ting omkring derinde, vi kjører endnu; selv har jeg desuten et lite tillæg av mathet, av ubehag, feber. Det der må nok kureres med en bitte liten dram, sier jeg. Og så ser jeg min leilighet til å hælde kognak i et ølglass.
~ Knut Hamsun
But this is not your fault—you are sick. The name of this sickness is IMAGINATION.  It is a worm that gnaws out black lines on the forehead. It is a fever that drives you to escape ever farther, even if this "farther" begins where happiness ends.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Ime te bolesti je: Mašta. To je -- crv, koji grize crne bore na ?elu. To je groznica koja vas tjera da tr?ite sve dalje -- iako to 'dalje' po?inje tamo gdje završava sre?a. To je -- posljednja barikada na putu prema sre?i. Radujte se: ona je ve? raznesena. Put je slobodan.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
~ John Keats