Quotes About Fever

Ranulf had seen fever scramble a man's wits, but so far, Robert remained conscious and coherent. After he'd been shriven of his earthly sins, he'd made his will, provided for alms to the poor, asked to be buried at his Bristol priory, and sought promises from his liegemen that they'd be as loyal to his son as they'd been to him. He was dying, Ranulf thought, as he'd lived, competently and quietly and with dignity, and Holy God Above, what would they do without him?

The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.

I described a program that is in wide use across the country to treat chronic pain. It bears repeating here that treating pain is not medically sound. Pain is a symptom, like fever. It has been elevated to the status of a separate disorder on the hypothesis that certain psychological factors cause the patient to exaggerate the pain. As stated before, this theory requires that one acknowledge the continuing presence of a structural reason for the pain—which is then exaggerated. In

Emotions are fevers of the mind.

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forgetWhat thou among the leaves hast never known,The weariness, the fever, and the fretHere, where men sit and hear each other groan;Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,Where youth grows pale, and specter-thin, and dies;Where but to think is to be full of sorrowAnd leaden-eyed despairs.

The kiss was long and soft, fever-hot and gentle, although holding Perceval in her arms was not unlike embracing a rope ladder. Her lips were soft and cracked over the firmness of her teeth, and it seemed Rien expanded on her breath like a blown balloon.

Terminé por encontrar sagrado el desorden de mi espíritu. Permanecía ocioso, presa de pesada fiebre: envidiaba la felicidad de las bestias —las orugas, que representan la inocencia de los limbos, los topos ¡el sueño de la virginidad!

Am sfârÅŸit prin a socoti sacr? dezordinea minÅ£ii mele.Eram trândav,prad? unei febre ap?s?toare:pizmuiam fericirea dobitoacelor,pizmuiam ÅŸi omizile,care întruchipeaz? inocenÅ£a limburilor,la fel ÅŸi cârtiÅ£ele,ÅŸi somnul virginit??ii!

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic; and certainly to a kingdom or estate, a just and honorable war, is the true exercise. A civil war, indeed, is like the heat of a fever; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health; for in a slothful peace, both courages will effeminate, and manners corrupt.

I have a really embarrassing reaction to horror films. I break out in a fever.

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

You're like a madness inside me, a fever I can't cure.

But a spiritual fever, like a physical fever, actually has a productive function: it burns up disease. Think of your pain as a feverish burning up of fear. As you heal physically, extreme fever can lead to delirium. And as you heal spiritually, your fever can lead to delirium as well—a quiet delirium of the soul. But this too shall pass.

Oh, joy of joys! We have found Richard! He is still alive! Just barely, for he is in a deep coma and has a high fever, but he is nevertheless alive.

No information could be got from the lady herself, who was temporarily insane from an acute attack of brain fever.

Money," says my mother, "can buy everything but a fever.

She worried about his father's fever, but couldn't say how high it was, the thermometer being one of several items that had managed somehow to get lost in the move from Chicago. And there were no more thermometers to be found at the drugstore. And once they'd used up the aspirin they had on hand, that was it. Like surgical masks and thermometers, cold and flu medication had run out everywhere. Rubbing alcohol, mouthwash, bleach--anything containing germ killer was also sold out.

stillborn, and the plague, the fiery god of fever hurls down on the city, his lightning slashing through us— raging plague in all its vengeance, devastating the house of Cadmus!

Attention to her words was at such a fever pitch that Theo was visited by a delegation of three diamond sellers who begged her aid. That very evening Lady Islay appeared at a ball wearing a necklace that featured no fewer than eight strands of diamonds, caught together by an extraordinary pear-shaped diamond pendant, and casually remarked that she thought a woman should rival the Milky Way at night: *We give babies milk, but ladies? Diamonds.*

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air. All History is in a state of petrification; its odours shift toward the future: we rush toward it, if only for the fever inherent in any decomposition.

Universul îmi explodeaz? în creier. Febr? insuportabil?. Sunt la un pas de Haos. Elementele se dezl?nÈ›uie. P?mântul îmi fuge de sub picioare. Cine m? va reconcilia cu lucrurile? Un punct fix, caut un punct fix, È™i nu g?sesc decât incertitudine È™i noroi, È™i un delir irepresibil.

Je n'ai guère de souci de beauté ni de perfection... Je n'ai souci que de vie, de lutte, de fièvre.

Avrei voluto che arrivasse presto il mattino. Volevo bagnare il mio corpo nella sua luce abbagliante, quella che purifica ogni cosa, come facevo adesso nell'acqua di quel bagno termale. Perché mi rendevo conto che, come succede quando si ha la febbre alta e non si riesce a ricordare la vita normale, per il momento non potevo vivere al di fuori di quella notte.