a bad cold QUOTES

1 " Sometimes life is intensely interesting and meaningful, and this meaning seems to be an objective fact, like sunlight. At other times it's as meaningless and futile as the wind. We accept this eclipse of meaning as we accept changes in the weather. If I wake up with a bad cold or a headache, I seem to be deaf to meaning. Now if I woke up physically deaf or half-blind, I'd feel there was something wrong and consult a doctor. But when I'm deaf to meaning, I accept it as something natural. Esmond didn't accept it as natural. And he also noticed that every time we're sexually stimulated, meaning returns. We can hear again. So he pursued sex as a way of recovering meaning. "

― Colin Wilson

2 " I wonder why Steven wasn’t at swimming club tonight?” Archie asked.
“He’s caught bronchitis,” Mrs Akran said.
Imran thought for a second before replying. “I would like to catch a dinosaur too. I wonder what he feeds it?”
Archie looked at his friend his face looked as if he was in pain before he burst out laughing. “Imran you’re tragic. Bronchitis is like a bad cold it’s not a type of dinosaur. "

― , Archie Wilson & The Beasts of Loch Ness

3 " Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment. "

― Donna Tartt , The Secret History