Pestilence Quotes

“Love is the greatest gift we can give or receive.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“There have been many plagues in the world as there have been wars, yet plagues and wars always find people equally unprepared. [...] When a war breaks out people say: 'It won't last, it's too stupid.' And war is certainly too stupid, but that doesn't prevent it from lasting. Stupidity always carries doggedly on, as people wold notice if they were not always thinking about themselves. In this respect, the citizens of Oran were like the rest of the world, they thought about themselves, in other words, they were humanists: they did not believe in pestilence. A pestilence does not have human dimensions, so people tell themselves that it is unreal, that it is a bad dream which will end. But it does not always end and, from one bad dream to the next, it is people who end, humanists first of all because they have not prepared themselves.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the Grave the closes over Love and Hope, are steps of my journey, and take me nearer and nearer to the End.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“The locust has no king
Just noise and hard language
They talk me over”
― David Eugene Edwards

“Why am I here?” I ask.
“I won’t let you die.”
Again, I don’t know whether him saving me is a kindness or a curse.
It’s obviously a curse, you dumb bimbo. He ain’t saving you to romance your ass.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“How he has patience for foreplay right now is beyond me. Then again, I was always the kid who peeked at my Christmas presents before they were wrapped, so … maybe when it comes to fun shit, I’m just overzealous.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical processes and the invention of new ones, accompanied by an even more remarkable development of old and new means of locomotion and intercommunication. By this rapid and vast multiplication of the commodities and conveniences of existence, the general standard of comfort has been raised, the ravages of pestilence and famine have been checked, and the natural obstacles, which time and space offer to mutual intercourse, have been reduced in a manner, and to an extent, unknown to former ages. The diminution or removal of local ignorance and prejudice, the creation of common interests among the most widely separated peoples, and the strengthening of the forces of the organisation of the commonwealth against those of political or social anarchy, thus effected, have exerted an influence on the present and future fortunes of mankind the full significance of which may be divined, but cannot, as yet, be estimated at its full value.”
― Thomas Henry Huxley, Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century, The

“Volume II: Chapter 5
The God sends down his angry plagues from high,
Famine and pestilence in heaps they die.
Again in vengeance of his wrath he falls
On their great hosts, and breaks their tottering walls;
Arrests their navies on the ocean's plain,
And whelms their strength with mountains of the main.”
― Mary Shelley, The Last Man

“This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit
Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense,
More bodies are consumed and kill'd with it
Than with the sword, famine, or pestilence.”
― John Davies of Hereford

“Sara. Sara, Sara,” He breathes, kissing my eyelids, my cheeks, my lips, my chin. “I confess your earlier apologies moved me, but they are unnecessary all the same. You needn’t ask for my forgiveness-you already have it and more, if you’ll but take what I offer.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.”
― Camus Albert

“He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
~ William Blake
"Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches."
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
"A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect."

~ Ben Jonson”
― Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Libr

“He kisses the column of my throat, right down to the hollow at the base of it. “You have my mercy, my mind, my adoration, my body, my… life.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“Hungry men are not known for their patience or their kindness.”
― Karen Essex, Pharaoh

“If death has power, then count on me in death to be the real Marcus Garvey I would like to be. I may come in an earthquake, or cyclone, or plague or pestilence, or as God would have me, then be assured that I shall never desert you and make your enemies triumph over you. Would I not go to hell a million times for you?”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“I am Pestilence, and my memory is longer than recorded history- it is even longer than man. I came before him, and, dear Sara, I will outlive his end.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“Love, affection, compassion- these are are the few redeeming qualities your kind has,” he says, “and now I’m being tempted, and it is breaking me in two.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence