Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Quotes
He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983