Top 12 Infection Quotes

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.

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Body, Want, Infection

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

Zadie Smith

Skins, Should, Infection

Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.264, Vintage

The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.

Richard Preston

Earth, Infection, Parasites

The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

Mark Nepo

Heart, Violence, Infection

FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Jul 16, 2015

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Wallace Stevens

Thinking, Epidemics, Infection

Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.240, Vintage

We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.

Luc Montagnier

Infection, Knows

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

Dick Dale

Legs, Infection

I'm the perfect candidate to be affected by SARS. I'm highly susceptible to infections.

Ron Santo

Perfect, Infection, Candidates

If I were going to put my money on it, I would bet that by 2050—hopefully earlier—we’ll have found that more than 80 percent of all human cancer is caused by infection.

Paul W. Ewald

Cancer, Found, Infection