Buboes Plague Quotes & Sayings

The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's. — Joseph Glanvill

Isn't it sad that a man of no significance like this marriage clerk should impede the progress of your life? But a lowly worm eats the corpses of the most exalted individuals. — Naguib Mahfouz

If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do. — Muhammad Yunus

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore ... like, none. — Henry Rollins

Intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none. — Madame De Stael

A typical plague victim developed large, tumorlike buboes on the skin; they started the size of almonds and grew to the size of eggs. They were painful to the touch and brought on hideous deformities when they grew large. A bubo under the arm would force the arm to lurch uncontrollably out to the side; sited on the neck, it would force the head into a permanently cocked position. The buboes were frequently accompanied by dark blotches, known as God's tokens, an unmistakable sign that the sufferer had been touched by the angel of death. Accompanying these violent deformities, the victim often developed a hacking cough that brought up blood and developed into incessant vomiting. He gave off a disgusting stench, which seemed to leak from every part of his body - his saliva, breath, sweat, and excrement stank overpoweringly - and eventually he began to lose his mind, wandering around screaming and collapsing in pain. — Dan Jones

General Motors is alive and kicking today, it is because in 2009 President Obama's administration wrote off 90 percent of its debt. — Yanis Varoufakis

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity. — Ben Lerner

Still, there was something about telling people where you worked, their eyes lighting up in recognition, that I needed right now. — Jessica Knoll

To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion. — Conrad Hilton

When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often the dream becomes troubling; sometimes it even turns into a nightmare. At times like these, you may want to test the truth of your theories by doing The Work on them. The Work always leaves you with less of your uncomfortable story. Who would you be without it? How much of your world is made up of unexamined stories? You'll never know until you inquire. — Byron Katie

Mrs. Clutterthorpe, I can hardly think of any fate worse than becoming the mother of six. Unless perhaps it were plague, and even then I am persuaded a few disfiguring buboes and possible death would be preferable to motherhood. — Deanna Raybourn

If I don't get you now, I'll get you later. — Marion Motley

He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had everything we wanted. — Cassandra Clare