Best Black Death Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: GoneGodWorld, Episode One

“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.”

Suffering Saint Martyr Martyrdom Saints Martyrs Black Death Bubonic Plague Black Plague Holy Suffering

Book:Laid Waste

Source: Laid Waste

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

Renaissance Black Death

Book:Inferno

Source: 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”

Plague Virus Ebola Black Death

Author:Paul Gilbert

“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.”

Doctors Priests Plague Black Death 14th Century

Book:The Black Death

Source: The Black Death

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

Hopeful Death And Dying End Of The World Middle Ages Dark Ages Hopeful Quotes You Matter Black Death Bubonic Plague We Matter

Book:Laid Waste

Source: Laid Waste

“Die Welt ist im Umbruch. Jedenfalls kann sie nach diesem Unglück nicht mehr die gleiche sein.”

Love Hope Forest Black Death

Book:Der Veilchengraf

Source: Der Veilchengraf

“While history may never repeat itself, "man," as Voltaire once observed, "always does.”

History Plague Black Death

Book:The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death

Source: The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death

“We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]”

Law Death Goal Black Common All Things Bounds Ads Common Goal Black Death

Author:Ovid

“There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.”

People Black Tables Passionate Dinner Lists Dinner Table Black Death

Author:Mira Grant

“The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.”

Age Black Modern Middle Century Rats Plague Middle Ages Modern Life Tourists Black Death

Author:Richard Conniff

“Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people... Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense... How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree? Because I ate the kid who made it up.”

People Thinking Made Kids Fall Black Millions Century Rings Made It Experts Nonsense Pockets Disagree Ashes Rhyme Plague Falling Down Rosie Black Death

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.”

Said Lying Black Nice Wow Traps Bike Black Death

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.”

Black Century Victim Gray Plague Twentieth Century Black Death

Book:Island

Source: Island

“I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.”

People Said Seems Black Black Death

Book:Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi

Source: Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi

“When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.”

World Mean Hard Moments Light Black Forever Fields Cold Mouths Green Finals Present Moment That Moment Stretching Green Fields Black Death Flickering Light

Book:Deathless

Source: Deathless

“I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.”

Death Heaven Black White Black Death

Author:Andrew Jackson

“All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.”

Has Beens Black Wings Betrayed Black Death

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World War II, the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and the fall of the Roman Empire. They even survived the Dark Ages, when almost no one could read and each book had to be copied by hand. They aren't going to be killed off by the Internet.”

“If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.”

Ifs World Black Generations Population Spread Survivor Eugenics Population Control World Population Depopulation Black Death Science And Society

Book:The Impact of Science On Society

Source: The Impact of Science On Society