Age Quote by Lord Chesterfield

What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.

— Michael Gilbert

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash…

— Albert Camus

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

— Samuel Johnson

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

— Albert Camus

“There had been as many plagues in the world as there had been wars, yet plagues and wars always find people equelly unprepared.”

— Albert Camus

A plague on both your houses.

— William Shakespeare

“Plague did not honor social class, and mortality among the nobility approximated that of the general population.”

— Robert Steven Gottfried

What a plague love is!

— Cornelia Funke

Published in 1947, 'The Plague' has often been read as an allegory, a book that is really about the occupation of France, say, or…

— Anne Applebaum

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequethed their writings to me--I have no others.

— Thomas Bernhard

“But the bubonic plague never went away entirely. It still exists today. The World Health Organization reports that in 2013 there were 783 cases…

— Jennifer Wright

“In the countryside, an outbreak of plague usually lasted about six months and then faded away. In cities and other places where people lived…

— Phyllis Goldstein