Quotes Tagged "plague"

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 boats. Others, fewer these, Tarrou may have been one of them, had desired reunion with something they couldn't have defined, but which seemed to them the only desirable thing on earth. For want of a better name, they sometimes called it peace.

With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.

Hope...which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.

The powerful God has power over the plague.

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 potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.

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

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.

For whatever reason, illiteracy continues to plague the racist troll community.

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.