“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.” KnowsMindWellsMayHouseBlackPoorBrainDiseaseMortalsPoisonSuspectsSuspicionPlaguePestilence Book:The Works of Ben Jonson Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“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.” AgeBlackModernMiddleCenturyRatsPlagueMiddle AgesModern LifeTouristsBlack Death Author:Richard Conniff
“Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of "doing your own thing," air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information.” RealBlackWhiteMagicAirMediaInformationColdUnconsciousPlagueConditioningPsychoanalysisFrostFreezingBlack MagicAir ConditioningSterilizationFrigidityReal DeepDoing Your Own Thing Book:Cool memories Source: Cool memories
“Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!” LastsBlackVirtuePrayingBreathsWingsAgingInnocenceModestyPlaguePietyChastityThighsPray For Me Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas