Fevered Quotes

#1. For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

St. Jerome

#2. The changes of a fevered room are slow and fluctuating; but the changes of the fevered world are rapid and irrevocable.

Charles Dickens

#3. Rock me on the water
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water
I'll get down to the sea somehow

Jackson Browne

#4. War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod ...

Hilda Doolittle

#5. All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.

Vincent Bugliosi

#6. Life is but a short and fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give.

Stephen Christian

#7. What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesitant, sweet, soft, wet, dying, fevered, good-night, farewell, burning, and chocolate.

Gilbert Sorrentino

#8. All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms.

Hermann Hesse

#9. As my muscles marginally relax, the tension flicks from anger to fevered desire. I want to tear each wisp of clothing off her and tie her to this f**king desk. I'll know next time, to bring my satin ribbon.

M.R. Field

#10. O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#11. But never has the Call been so clear
As now, when death's cool hand
Eases my spirit from my fevered body--
And I answer the Call of the Master -
The Call to new Heights.

Jessica Coupe

#12. He walks the soft grass, wet with fresh rain, jeans slung low on his hips and shirt hanging open, still dripping from the fevered maelstrom that set fire to the night sky. Fury in his step and passion furrowing his brow...He is my perfect storm...

Virginia Alison

#13. So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

Clive Barker

#14. I avoid contemporary TV ... politics ... art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter.

Dean Koontz

#15. Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

Shana Alexander

#16. Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm
into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.

Stephenie Meyer

#17. She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that wildly fly, The famished face, the fevered hand, Who slights the worthiest in the land, Sneers at the just, contemns the brave, And blackens goodness in its grave ...

William Watson

#18. Either the gates of hell had opened, or Tom had lost his mind; for there could be nothing like this entity outside the precincts of the damned, except in the fevered fantasies of a raving paranoid psychopath

Dean Koontz

#19. I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious ...

Bill Hicks

#20. Be cool, my fevered brain.
And it wouldn't hurt you, body, to take a tumble in the snow.

Sherryl Jordan

#21. The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered gleam of his eyes. There was not a line anywhere on his face, nothing creased or graying; all crisp. He was spring, golden and bright. Envious death would drink his blood, and grow young again.

Madeline Miller

#22. As if we'd have sex in a cave surrounded by hordes of demons. This is reality, not your fevered imagination.

Cassandra Clare

#23. I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.

Richard Hovey

#24. His hands slipped down her neck and landed on her shoulders. Tipping his chin down, his fevered eyes met hers. Are you sure that's what you want, Bridget? Because once I start, I won't stop again. I will take you - take you so hard that every breath afterward is only going to remind you of me.

J. Lynn

#25. I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.

M. Carey Thomas

#26. Hey you
All our fevered history won't instill insight,
won't turn a body conscious,
won't make that look
in the eyes say yes, though there is nothing
to solve
even as each moment is an answer.

Claudia Rankine

#27. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Emile Durkheim

#28. Maybe the abomination had infected her with his claws after all, and this was all some kind of fevered hallucination. This shit was crazy enough to qualify as a dream, right?

Bethany K. Lovell

#29. What is this slow blue dream of living,
and this fevered death by dreaming?

Aberjhani

#30. As I pass out into the blackness,
I wonder if I have ever really known you -
Or if you exist at all,
And are not but a twisted, fevered, silver creation of my brain.
And the unreality of you comes over me,
Like a mist upon a lonely sea.

Mercedes De Acosta