“The Black Death announces itself by the appearance of…

“القانون يأتي قبل كل شيء ، ولكن ما الذي ينبغي عمله إذا كانت الرحمة تأتي قبل القانون؟" "The law comes before everything, but what's to be done if the mercy comes before the law?”

— Nikita Mikhalkov

I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“In October 1347, several trading ships from Genoa, Italy, pulled into the harbor at Messina in Sicily. Everyone aboard those ships was dead or…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Accounts from Europe indicate that the danse macabre took another form, inspired by the Black Death, rather like our children's rhyme 'Ring o' Ring…

— Catharine Arnold

“It was the greatest tidal wave of death since the Black Death, perhaps in the whole of human history.”

— Laura Spinney

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

— Bertrand Russell

I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death.

— Anonymous

“Oh, such a shame, such a shame. Oh, such a shame. What’s it all about anyhow?” “I’ve wondered for a long time.” “But why…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the…

— Scott Westerfeld

“Even more than black death he dreaded the gaudy gate: the mask of sweet red rubber, the violet overhead lights, the rattling ride through…

— Adam Begley

We need to have a modicum of faith in people's common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the face of…

— Robert Higgs

“After the Black Death in the mid-1300s, the persecution of Jews intensified, and many Jews in Europe moved farther east. Some left because life…

— Phyllis Goldstein

We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws.…

— Ovid

“[According to 1348 theorists, poisoning of Christian water by Jews was the cause of Black Death.] Even the poison used to contaminate the Christian…

— John Kelly

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering…

— Catherynne M. Valente