Samuel Pepys Quotes

Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.

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.

More people in the world have died in such a short time of plague than has been heard or seen since the beginning of time …. Whoever touched the sick and dead was immediately infected and died …. That pestilence deprived of human inhabitants villages and cities so that there was scarcely found a man to dwell therein.

The spread of the disease is under control. What I worry about is the spread of fear of the disease is not under control.

It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads with something foreign and uncomfortable. Very often it was actually their own hair made into a wig. People who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their hair look like a wig.

As a war must have generals, so must a plague.

I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick.

Of course when you look back from all the pandemics that have happened in the world, they were really scary.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.

When I was Elvira, it was probably the phase of my hair getting too high. I thought that if really high hair was good, then really higher hair was even better. So I just started having my hair get higher and higher. In some of the pictures, we had to cut off the picture because it was like Marge Simpson. So that was embarrassing. The wig phase.

We are in the middle of what looks increasingly like the zombie apocalypse. Moaning people don't need help. Moaning people are intending to eat us.

And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind.

We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone... So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious... if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.

The plague swallowed up many of the good things of civilization and wiped them out. The entire world changed.

Zombies to me don't represent anything in particular. They are a global disaster that people don't know how to deal with.

Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy.

When you think about the worst places humans come into contact with, they are often our health environments.

Covid-19 may be here for a long time.

Death by rats would be the worst.

There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.

When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.