Fever Quotes

• It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change; when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Motivational, Night, Despair

  Hillary Clinton's remarks at the annual anniversary convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Minneapolis, clintonwhitehouse6.archives.gov. July 13, 1995.

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• Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Heart

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fire, Ice

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.601, Delacorte Press

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• 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

  Happiness, Knowledge, Proust

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• Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Nature, Instruments

  Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1848). “The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.54

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• Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

  William Penn

  Passion, Mind, Found

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.146

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• A fever is an expression of inner rage.

  Julia Roberts

  Expression, Rage

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• Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

  William Osler

  War, Humanity, Enemy

  Journal of the American Medical Association 26: 999 (1896)

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• If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

  Sam Walton

  Attitude, Love You, Passion

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.314, Bantam

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• My love is as a fever, longing still.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Longing, Stills

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 147.

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• I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

  Vin Scully

  Baseball, Bumps, Thermometers

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• Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Death, Night

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• You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid—she only asks that you cease interfering.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Healing, Trying, Needs

  Herbert M. Shelton (1993). “Getting Well”, p.175, Health Research Books

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• I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

  James Dickey

  Want, Quiet, Tranquility

  James Dickey (1984). “Sorties”, p.59, LSU Press

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• An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

  William Shakespeare

  Emulation, Envious, Pale

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 129

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• When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Jobs, Maturity

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

  Lord Byron

  Life, Passion, Earthquakes

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Routledge

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• Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.

  Jessica Valenti

  Disease

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• My love is as a fever, longing still
  For that which longer nurseth the disease,
  Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
  Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.
  My reason, the physician to my love,
  Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
  Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
  Desire is death, which physic did except.

  William Shakespeare

  Famous Love, Love Is, Desire

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 147.

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• Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspiring, Death, Past

  1850 'ForAnnie'.

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• Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Baby, Grace, Helping

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.

  Laurel Clark

  Rain, Sick, Trying

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• After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Prayer, Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. The main symptom was falling hair. Diarrhoea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.

  John Hersey

  Falling In Love, Hair, Fifteen

  "Hiroshima".

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• Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Running, Children, Play

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Conservative”, p.44, Arktos

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