What it wanted were minds to fill with gnawing pestilence…

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

— Charles W. Chesnutt

“The men hunched around, talking with the gaiety of souls about to eat plentifully, with the empty dark country about us, and the strange…

— Sebastian Barry

Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!

— David Mitchell

[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel…

— Frederick Douglass

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God wishes -…

— Charles Spurgeon

The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant…

— Terry Pratchett

Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full…

— David Hume

“...my war on commas. They are a pestilence. They must be stopped.”

— Charles Krauthammer

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

— Wendell Berry

Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice…

— George Eliot

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

— Tenzin Palmo

The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here has been…

— Rush Limbaugh

I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine,…

— William Saroyan

Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a…

— Robert Green Ingersoll