Black Death Quotes

“There's nothing holy about suffering. The stories of the martyrs illustrate their faith because in spite of what they endured they did not suffer. A saint always dies smiling.”
― Julia Gfrörer, Laid Waste

“Culling is God's Natural Order. Ask yourself, What followed the Black Death? We all know the answer. The Renaissance. Rebirth.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Maybe one day History will tell us that Ebola never won but rather Government's failed to act, and that Ebola just simply walked in and meet No resistance, Barring a few brave souls that fought the Virus on their own and never relied on the Government Coming to Help, the victor always writes the history what will Ebola write about Mankind”
― Paul Gilbert

“Give me the Black Death over a Victorian prude any day. At least the dying screw like it's their last day on earth.”
― R.E. Vance, GoneGodWorld, Episode One

“Fourteenth-century men seemed to have regarded their doctor in rather the same way as the twentieth-century men are apt to regard their priest, with tolerance for someone who was doing his best and the respect due to a man of learning but also with a nagging and uncomfortable conviction that he was largely irrelevant to the real and urgent problems of their lives.”
― Philip Ziegler, The Black Death

“Agnes! Do you hear me? I was wrong. The world isn't ending. There are things that matter. We matter.”
― Julia Gfrörer, Laid Waste

“Die Welt ist im Umbruch. Jedenfalls kann sie nach diesem Unglück nicht mehr die gleiche sein.”
― Jona Dreyer, Der Veilchengraf

“While history may never repeat itself, "man," as Voltaire once observed, "always does.”
― John Kelly, The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death