Top 100 The Plague Quotes
#1. The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. A plague rides on the air here. The smell of rot! This is Doal's realm. Can't you feel it? The keep is doomed, don't you see? No, I will not pass through this gate. There is a disease in there I will not touch.
Kaoru Kurimoto
#4. I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever.
Klaus Kinski
#5. Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.
Philip Guston
#6. The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.
Eric Hoffer
#7. That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is truly frightening. A religion that breeds such people is a genuine plague upon the earth.
Richard Carrier
#8. The more I heard, the more I've learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about helping to address the challenges that plague the Native American community.
Daniel Snyder
#9. We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.
Diane Watson
#10. Prosperous suburbia was one of the end-states of history. Once achieved, only plague, flood, or nuclear war could threaten its grip.
J.G. Ballard
#11. In some circles, admitting you love Top 40 radio is tantamount to bragging you gave your grandmother the clap, in church, in the front row at your aunt's funeral, but those are the circles I avoid like the plague or, for that matter, the clap.
Rob Sheffield
#12. The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.
Simone Weil
#13. With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.
Luke Taylor
#14. Every war, every plague is God's judgment. But every man who rises up to stop the wars and the plagues is God's instrument. Human action is God's will, not blind indifference in the face of suffering.
John Kramer
#15. Maia was either going to grow up to rule the world or loose a planetwide plague upon the land. Maybe both.
Patricia Briggs
#16. The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Wilhelm Reich
#17. The neglect of a generation is regeneration so every soul may become its own history, not the incessant anxiety of unnaturally imposed lessons, a plague of its own making.
Dew Platt
#18. Anything to piss you off, Brother. Why else? (Arik)
Oh, that's easy enough to do. Basically the fact that you breathe does that. (Solin)
Love you, too. (Arik)
Of course you do, like a plague on your privates. (Solin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#19. In Zechariah 14.. their flesh dissolves away, because of the plague hitting them for coming against the Jews in Jerusalem. When did that happen? I've never read when flesh dissolved; it can now, because of necrotizing fasciitis, or the neutron bomb, but not in 70AD.
Jack Van Impe
#20. I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth
the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other plagues in the world; for thereupon most surely follow all manner of punishments, eternal and corporal.
Martin Luther
#21. If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.
Aaron Patzer
#22. Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.
Karen White
#23. The German leaders, said Winston Churchill, turned upon Russia the most grisly of all weapons. They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia.
Robert K. Massie
#25. Mrs. Clutterthorpe, I can hardly think of any fate worse than becoming the mother of six. Unless perhaps it were plague, and even then I am persuaded a few disfiguring buboes and possible death would be preferable to motherhood.
Deanna Raybourn
#26. The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences.
Robert Anton Wilson
#27. When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.
Sandra Cisneros
#28. The U.S. must immediately stop all flights from EBOLA infected countries or the plague will start and spread inside our borders. Act fast!
Donald Trump
#29. Plague did not honor social class, and mortality among the nobility approximated that of the general population.
Robert Steven Gottfried
#30. I had once read, in one of those pre-plague books in the library, that love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: you're life is worth seeing.
Anna Carey
#31. To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing.
Emil Cioran
#32. Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.
Melissa McPhail
#33. You had a talk? You think talk got us out of Egypt or Entebbe? Uh-uh. Plague and Uzis. Talk gets you a good place in line for a shower that isn't a shower.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#34. Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'
Charlton Heston
#35. Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
St. Jerome
#36. It was plague. We've had the plague here.' You'd almost think they expected to be given medals for it. But what does that mean
'plague'? Just life, no more than that.
Albert Camus
#37. Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children protection so that they could safeguard their own self- image. Or maybe we'll just seem like a bunch of lunatics.
Anna Quindlen
#38. 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
#39. Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn't mean they're stupid.
Jeff Goodell
#40. Whenever Jehovah's Witnesses appear at my door, I always ask for their addresses first thing, assuring them that I'll be around later in the week to plague them with my views. While
Sue Grafton
#41. I've been to every single book I know
To soothe the thoughts that plague me so.
Sting
#42. Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.
Karen Maitland
#43. AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
Larry Kramer
#44. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare
#45. For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
George MacDonald
#46. Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.
Jonathan Maberry
#47. Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out?
Bill Maher
#48. And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
Albert Camus
#49. Our parents resorted to the lash the way flagellants in the plague years resorted to the scourge.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#50. It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
Camille Claudel
#51. Borromeo also organized partial quarantines, especially for women, whom he regarded not only as more likely to occasion sin but as the primary carriers of plague (because, he said, they talked so much and constantly visited each other's houses).
Andrew Graham-Dixon
#52. Don't stay with Urdanetea, he told him. And don't go with your family to the United States. It's omnipotent and terrible, and its tale of liberty will end in a plague of miseries for us all.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#53. Maybe "Bible Belt" refers not so much to the popularity of the Good Book in these parts, but to the biblical-plague level of insects.
Paul Jury
#54. Pray not while you can work. Hope is the least of what life can afford you, never the best. Hope is a plague, never a blessing, especially when the answer is sought not from us but from others. It is unqualified burden to expect something from nothing.
Dew Platt
#55. Hast thou, then, nothing more to mention? Com'st ever, thus, with ill intention? Find'st nothing right on earth, eternally? MEPHISTOPHELES No, Lord! I find things, there, still bad as they can be. Man's misery even to pity moves my nature; I've scarce the heart to plague the wretched creature.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#56. The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict.
Sam Vaknin
#57. When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this.
Howard Zinn
#58. He was not, by the standard definitions, a bad man; in the same way a plague-bearing rat is not, from a dispassionate point of view, a bad animal.
Terry Pratchett
#59. A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name,
Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame,
A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb
Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb;
By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd,
Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.
Tom Brown Jr.
#60. Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
Michel De Montaigne
#61. The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.
Katharine Lee Bates
#62. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion about freedom plague them both.
Yann Martel
#63. If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.
Wilhelm Keitel
#64. The Annual Register for 1763 tabulated the casualty list for British sailors in the Seven Years' War with France. Out of 184,899 men raised or rounded up for the war, 133, 708 died from disease, primarily scurvy, while only 1,512 were killed in action.
Stephen R. Brown
#65. Our forces shall spread like a great plague across the earth, every blue zone on the planet will feel our wrath!
Kane
#66. I could do without the Bubonic Plague.
Jeri Ryan
#67. Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.
Tom Robbins
#68. Physic himself must fade.
All things to end are made;
The plague full swift goes by.
I am sick, I must die
P.98
Ally Condie
#69. HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.
Ambrose Bierce
#71. We need a plague. It's gotta happen. And don't worry, it's only gonna kill the weak. Seriously. Put on a sweater, take some vitamins, you're gonna be fine! We gotta let mother nature do her
thing, man. She keeps trying to help us out and we won't let her do it.
Bill Burr
#72. My anxiety house a house and a fence and a deer in the yard. A zip code. A plague of starlings.
Kristy Bowen
#73. If today He deigns to bless us With a sense of pardon'd sin, He tomorrow may distress us, Make us feel the plague within, All to make us Sick of self, and fond of Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#74. I am thinking of a sky filled with spaceships, so many of them that they seem like a plague of locusts, silver against the luminous mauve of the night.
Neil Gaiman
#75. Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.
Smiley Blanton
#76. I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts.
Mike Wallace
#77. Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
Albert Camus
#78. I had finally, finally contracted the Love Plague. And the only remedy was Andrew James Wesley Levin. A boy so fabulous his parents had to give him three names just to contain all the wonder.
Jenny B. Jones
#79. Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?
Albert Camus
#80. The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
Shelley Berman
#81. You thought perhaps you would drink it away, the plague? Was that the plan?"
"I thought perhaps I'd try to die drunk."
"Such ambition. And this from a dragon-slayer.
Richard K. Morgan
#82. I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.' Vega
Amanda Hocking
#83. Humans are the unrivaled plague the nature has even seen.
M.F. Moonzajer
#84. The innocent curiosity of children gives them astounding courage.
Plague Jack
#85. Opinion is death. Opinion is plague. When it comes to web site management, trusting your gut is the last thing you should do.
Gerry McGovern
#86. Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.
Rick Pitino
#87. The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
Andre Breton
#89. To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.
Eleanora Duse
#90. The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.
Maya Angelou
#91. Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans
Dean Cavanagh
#92. Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come.
Asha-Rose Migiro
#93. 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
#94. All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.
Lord Chesterfield
#95. My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
George Washington
#96. If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.
Barbara Amiel
#97. We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.
Herb Kohl
#98. But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes wrought by the visitations of the Great Plague, virtually destroyed serfdom as a personal status.
Edward Jenks
#99. They asked for Plato's assistance. He told them: "You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God." ... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.
Mulla Sadra
#100. One cannot escape dogmas - those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.
Sigrid Undset
