Top 55 Plague Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Plague Quotes from famous people such as RJ Mitte, Henry Rollins, Jim Starlin, Oren Etzioni, Daniel Berrigan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I try not to look back at anything I do. I avoid it lik

I try not to look back at anything I do. I avoid it like the plague.
RJ Mitte
Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
Henry Rollins
Not exactly sure there can be a final chapter to Thanos, considering what he is and his relationship with Mistress Death. Might just be that as long as there is a Marvel, there will be a Thanos to plague that universe’s heroes.
Jim Starlin
All these things that we’ve contemplated, whether it’s space travel or solutions to diseases that plague us, Ebola virus, all of these things would be a lot more tractable if the machines are trying to solve these problems.
Oren Etzioni
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
Daniel Berrigan
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
George Washington
The more Arsenal games I see, the more it chips away at my impostor syndrome, a common plague among Arsenal fans with non-U.K. origins.
Brendan Hunt
Gun violence is a plague in all of our communities, and we must come together to stop it.
Elizabeth Esty
When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and mistreatment that continued to plague them – and longer still for political parties and candidates to respond to such activism.
Stacey Abrams
The old problems – love, money, security, status, health, etc. – are still here to plague us or please us.
Shelley Berman
I avoid subways like the plague because I’m claustrophobic.
Patty Griffin
Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.
Steven Berkoff
I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever.
Klaus Kinski
We are a plague on the Earth.
David Attenborough
I think making a film is as much knowing what you don’t like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don’t like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.
Panos Cosmatos
It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
Camille Claudel
A journey through the Mediterranean is not only inspiring and stimulating, it is also humbling. The men and women who created antique treasures for us to marvel at had to deal with plague, genocide, a world without writing, iron tools, or penicillin – and yet they made something extraordinary of their life and times.
Bettany Hughes
The more I heard, the more I’ve learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about helping to address the challenges that plague the Native American community.
Daniel Snyder
Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.
Alan Huffman
While Secretary Napolitano may be gone, she will not be forgotten. Her inaction and incompetence on border security will continue to plague our nation for years to come.
Paul Gosar
If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there’s no competitive advantage, there’s no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.
Aaron Patzer
I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn’t plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I’ve never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.
Sloane Crosley
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.
Katharine Lee Bates
AIDS is a plague – numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health – though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
Larry Kramer
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
Yayoi Kusama
I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It’s cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims’ homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.
Paul O’Grady
Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn’t mean they’re stupid.
Jeff Goodell
The only airline I avoid like the plague is Ryanair. I don’t like that, when you book, there are then all of these little extras to pay for, and you end up paying more than just flying with British Airways.
Eddie the Eagle
I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don’t like getting scared.
Danai Gurira
There are horrible periods in which entire nations sink into the plague of darkness and hatred.
Svetlana Alexievich
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
William Safire
You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just i

You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn’t take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it’s a feature of pretty much any feature you do.
Mark Strong
To be fair, I don’t think it’s a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
A. J. Bowen
Insecurities and missteps can plague writers and artists who come from rural places. We worry that our provincial life experiences won’t gain the approval of urban curators, so we assimilate ourselves to other, more sophisticated voices.
Lee Isaac Chung
Science is performed by people, and it’s subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics.
Hope Jahren
Like the plague, opioids kill the young, the old, the healthy, the sick, the virtuous and the sinful.
Eric Greitens
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Igor Stravinsky
Any attempt to redress the inequities and injustices that plague our society has to start with the reality that we will never live in a genuine meritocracy as long as the wealthy are able to protect their own interests.
Dawn Foster
‘Love’ is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like ‘move.’ The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as ‘love’ and as ‘guv’ – a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.
James Fenton
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
Ludwig von Mises
Drag queens are extremely innovative and, I mean, we will persist through plague, famine, war or pandemic. We will prevail.
Alaska
The history of New Orleans was always a fascination to me – such a blend of light and darkness and plague and pleasure and hedonism and fear and death. It’s just a very, very intriguing city. I have this strange love relationship with it.
Beth Moore
I’d move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
Russell Crowe
Albert Camus’s ‘La Peste’ – ‘The Plague’ – had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from ‘La Peste.’
Drew Gilpin Faust
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
Angela Carter
As for AIDS, it’s a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it’s a quarter; after that it’s a childhood disease.
Larry Niven
Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
Uri Geller
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
Robert Burton
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding
The Bears treat offense as if it’s bubonic plague.
Tony Kornheiser
We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.
Diane Watson
Yeah, I don’t deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
Max Cannon
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding
When self-delusion and self-flattery enter the mind-set of a product team and the metrics they judge themselves by, like the first plague rat coming onto a ship, the end is practically preordained.
Antonio Garcia Martinez
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
Thom Gunn