85 Quotes About Plague
- Author Albert Camus
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Rats died in the street; men in their homes. And newspapers are concerned only with the street.
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- Author Michael Grant
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Surely she was redeemed? At least a little?Please? Please, if there is a God watching, please see that I have redeemed myself.But it wasn’t enough. It would never be enough. She had to do more. For as long as she lived she would have to do more.Starting with Caine.
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- Author Mary Shelley
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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 fallsOn 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.
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- Author Caspar Vega
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I think you were going to stop the Black Plague armed with one guard, one mad scientist, a rubber man, and a synthetic rat.
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- Author Jennifer Wright
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The disease is still around, it's still contagious, and despite the fact that the vaccine costs approximately sixteen cents to produce, and $3.13 to buy, tuberculosis continues to ravage periphery countries.Millions of people die from tuberculosis every year - and it's totally treatable. This is a disease we can eradicate in our lifetime.
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- Author Kelley Armstrong
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. 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 himself to the bench. “I know. I was very disappointed when I found out. Almost as bad as when I learned there were no fairies. The world is much more interesting with goblins and plagues.” “Unless you catch the plague.
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- Author Michael Grant
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Caine:Sheep. So long as they had a shepherd to ward off the wolves, they were happy. Spineless, indifferent, weak, stupid: it was hard not to have complete contempt for them.
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- Author Jonathan Galassi
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Love in the flesh remained elusive. It drew yet frightened him. This was the late eighties, after all, the most terrifying days of the plague. Surrounded everywhere by insolent youth and beauty, Paul looked and lusted but didn’t dare touch.
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- Author Aldous Huxley
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Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.
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