Top Plague Quotes

He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet's intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the...

Indeed Christianity passes. Passes—it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and...

Plague Definition

(n.) That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

(n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague.

(v. t.) To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.

(v. t.) Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.

[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are aban...

Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter. He held out a gray, speckled envelope.Happy birthday to you! Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications.Kendra tried not to blu...

When the plague struck Chicago, the townspeople here erected the gargoyles, and nary a soul was lost to the Black Death. The bubonic plague predates Chicago by about five hundred years. He lowered him...

Apocalyptic explosions, dead reactors, terrorists, mass murder, death-slugs, and now a blindness plague. This is a terrible planet. We should not have come here.

The mourning of a loved one never ends with a funeral. It comes back every so often, like a stage performer eager for a curtain call and expects you to be loud about it....I gave it all the lung capac...

Religion serves all of us; men, women, gays, straights, blacks, whites, Americans and Indians. If it does not comply with our needs, wishes and happiness, then religion without a doubt is a plague tha...

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

Death moved in the night, in search for blood, and when it found Life, it passed on by, like a cloud that moves by the face of the moon. When he found those dead without the red, he took the life befo...

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.

Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the usual channels of friendship, letters, trains, and...

I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise; it gave us Occasion to understand the Secrets of Nature which otherwise might have overwhelm'd us....

Humans are the unrivaled plague the nature has even seen.

I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come across many of them, and anyhow it must be a hard vocation. That's why I decided to take, in every p...

No, we love war.War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment.It's the mark of a very, very young soul, Mr. Whittier used to say, to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from t...