Plague Doctor Quotes & Sayings

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair. — Oliver Goldsmith

Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The problem of impermanence! Amongst the ruins we see the very end of our road! Whatever shows you the simple truth, it is your Master Teacher; whoever repeatedly recalls you of the plain truth, he is your good master! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a tuxedo, I'm a star. In regular clothes, I'm a nobody. — Dean Martin

That's what I said. There's no peace to disturb. I kept telling the cop: No. Peace. To. Disturb. Man. — Jandy Nelson

Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the lull that follows battle; it was the silence of defeat. But the silence now enveloping his dead friend, so dense, so much akin to the nocturnal silence of the streets and of the town set free at last, made Rieux cruelly aware that this defeat was final, the last disastrous battle that ends a war and makes peace itself an ill beyond all remedy. The doctor could not tell if Tarrou had found peace, now that all was over, but for himself he had a feeling that no peace was possible to him henceforth, any more than there can an armistice for a mother bereaved of a son or for a man who buries his friend. — Albert Camus

I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them. — Jeffrey Hunter

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. — Jean De La Bruyere

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith. — Emil Brunner

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. Buddha — Bohdi Sanders

Who can hide himself from death or who can embrace the wind? — Sorin Cerin

I think that there should have been some nice wumpires," said my sister, wistfully. "Nice, handsome, misunderstood wumpires."
"There were not," said my father. — Neil Gaiman

Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates! — Brother Lawrence

Who taught you all this, doctor?"
The reply came promptly:
"Suffering. — Albert Camus

Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden — Marilyn Monroe

Life is algorithmic. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague. Maybe it's everywhere in the population already and we never noticed. Maybe this is end-stage. Terminal without symptoms, like poor Kip."
Kanya glances at the ladyboy. Kip gives a gentle return smile. Nothing shows on her skin. Nothing shows on her body. It is not the doctor's disease she dies of. And yet ... Kanya steps away, involuntarily.
The doctor grins. "Don't look so worried. You have the same sickness. Life is, after all, inevitably fatal. — Paolo Bacigalupi

And Meredith says that reminds her of a Camus novel, the one about the plague, and she tells the story of it, the tale holding you in thrall, and she ends her version with a line you'll write down in your notebook, the place where the atheist doctor hollers at a priest: All your certainties aren't worth one strand of a woman's hair. — Mary Karr

Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person. — Zinedine Zidane

While on the space station, I kept up with news a couple of ways - Mission Control sent daily summaries, and I would scan headlines on Google News when we had an Internet connection, which was about half the time. — Chris Hadfield

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. — Philip Ziegler