logo

Quotes About Plague

What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
~ Albert Camus
The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
~ Michel de Montaigne
He doesn't belong here. He came one night during a bad storm. Been a plague ever since.
~ Chuck Wendig
America, burning. Cornfields on fire. Sickness in the streets. The people poisoned by their own food and by each other. Red parachutes in the sky: invasion. Dead people in the streets: plague. The stars-and-stripes cut to ribbons and burned for warmth as a long winter sinks its teeth in and never lets go.
~ Chuck Wendig
Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure.
~ Colson Whitehead
In his mind, the business of existence was about minimizing consequences. The plague had raised the stakes, but he had been in training for this his whole life.
~ Colson Whitehead
The plague touched them all, blood contact or no. The secret murderers, dormant rapists, and latent fascists were now free to express their ruthless natures. The congenitally timid, those who had been stingy with their dreams for themselves, those who came out of the womb scared and remained so: These, too, found a final stage for their weakness and in their last breaths were fulfilled. I've always been like this. Now I'm more me.
~ Colson Whitehead
Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.
~ Lauren Willig
Governor Bradford is said to have attributed the plague to "the good hand of God," which "favored our beginnings" by "sweeping away great multitudes of the natives Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that he might make room for us.
~ Charles C. Mann
That it is at least as difficult to stay a moral infection as a physical one; that such a disease will spread with the malignity and rapidity of the Plague; that the contagion, when it has once made head, will spare no pursuit or condition, but will lay hold on people in the soundest health, and become developed in the most unlikely constitutions; is a fact as firmly established by experience
~ Charles Dickens
The price of freedomof individualityis attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.
~ Gregory Dale Bear
Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur.
~ Sue Thoele
Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.
~ Hendrik Poinar
From winter, plague and pestilence, good Lord, deliver us!
~ Thomas Nashe
Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye. I am sick, I must die. Strength stoops unto the grave, Worms feed on Hector brave; Swords may not fight with fate, Earth still holds open her gate. "Come, come!" the bells do cry. I am sick, I must die. 'A Litany in Time of Plague
~ Thomas Nashe
Perhaps that's what's wrong with our time, Mr. Dunworthy, it was founded by Maisry and the bishop's envoy and Sir Bloet. And all the people who stayed and tried to help, like Roche, caught the plague and died.
~ Connie Willis
Itinerant degenerates bleeding westward like some heliotropic plague.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The flowered crown to all other abominations. A walkin plague in your own house. That's what's been
~ Cormac McCarthy
The invention of CRISPR and the plague of COVID will hasten our transition to the third great revolution of modern times. These revolutions
~ Walter Isaacson
Genetic vaccines The plague year of 2020 is likely to be remembered as the time when these traditional vaccines began to be supplanted by genetic vaccines. Instead of injecting a weakened or partial version of the dangerous virus into humans, these new vaccines deliver a gene or piece of genetic coding that will guide human cells to produce, on their own, components of the virus. The goal is for these components to stimulate the patient's immune system.
~ Walter Isaacson
During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was come. Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity. Prophecies of all sorts are rife on such occasions, and are readily believed, whether for good or evil. During the great plague, which ravaged all Europe, between the years 1345 and 1350, it was generally considered that the end of the world was at hand.
~ Charles Mackay
Now that I've lived through an actual plague, I see why Renaissance paintings are full of naked fat people laying on couches.
~ Internet meme, summer 2020
Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
~ Hannah More
Bu stresin alt?nda ezilenler için ak?l rahats?zl???na s???nmaktan ba?ka çare gözükmüyordu ki, zaman?n ?artlar? ile bu fanatik dincili?e döndü. Kara Ölüm'ün ilk günlerinde toplu sapk?nl?k, kendini ?ehir ?ehir dola?an binlerce k?rbaçç? tarikatlarda gösterdi. Sonra salg?n?n yay?lmas?ndan Yahudiler sorumlu tutuldu.
~ Hans Zinsser