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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• It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Knowledge, Desire, Glorious

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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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• If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.

  Stefano Benni

  Peace, Angel, Ifs

  Stefano Benni, Antony Shugaar (2006). “Margherita Dolce Vita”, Europa Editions Incorporated

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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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• A fever is an expression of inner rage.

  Julia Roberts

  Expression, Rage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Fred Thompson

  Thinking, Kyoto, People

  "Fred Thompson on global warming" by Brian Romans, www.wired.com. October 18, 2007.

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• Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.

  Robert James Graves

  Loss, Giving, Gone

  Robert James Graves (1863). “Studies in Physiology and Medicine”, p.59

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• It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

  Mark Twain

  Spring, Heart, Names

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.193, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

  Bela Lugosi

  Vampire, Roles, Demand

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