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Virus Quotes

From literal illness to sharp metaphor.

This page mixes literal health struggles with striking metaphor, including one voice who battled chronic fatigue after a difficult diagnosis and another who famously compared language itself to a virus. Indecision, too, is described as something contagious. See Health.

As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of...

Quotes by Abraham Verghese

Language is a virus from outer space.

Quotes by William S. Burroughs

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

Quotes by Wendell Mayes

Thankfully, I found a doctor at Presbyterian Hospital in New York, Scott Hammer, who diagnosed my chronic fatigue as the Epstein-Barr virus, and the medication I took either helped jump-start my immune system or made the virus dormant. I was...

Quotes by Tucker Halpern

Emotion Quotes

The mutating virus of multiculturalism has escaped its breeding ground in elite universities and is now running rampant across popular culture, entertainment, and politics.

Quotes by Tom Tancredo

I've had two neck surgeries, a back surgery, three knee surgeries, eye surgery, but I keep bouncing back. I won't go away - kind of like a virus. I don't go away. I keep coming back stronger and stronger. I'm...

Quotes by Tito Ortiz

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.

Quotes by Thomas Mellon

Nothing could be more important for a child affected by Zika virus than to have continuity of care, seamlessly from before birth to after birth.

Quotes by Thom Tillis

The Strandbeest is a self-replicating meme, a brain virus. It infects the student's brain. In fact, the Strandbeest abuse students for their reproduction. For two years, this reproduction fell into a flow acceleration. Now, 3D printers produce walking mini Strandbeests.

Quotes by Theo Jansen

Fear Quotes

National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

Quotes by Tariq Ramadan

I decided to pursue graduate study in molecular biology and was accepted by Professor Itaru Watanabe's laboratory at the Institute for Virus Research at the University of Kyoto, one of a few laboratories in Japan where U.S.-trained molecular biologists were...

Quotes by Susumu Tonegawa

After I arrived in Basel, I initially attempted to continue the project of my days in Dulbecco's laboratory, namely, the transcriptional control of the simian virus 40 genes.

Quotes by Susumu Tonegawa

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.

Quotes by Stephen Hawking

Thinking ahead, in 2013, the Japanese government, together with pharmaceutical companies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established a fund for promoting research and development of medical products for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The importance of planning for disease...

Quotes by Shinzo Abe

Health Quotes

The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. It mutates furiously, it has decoys to evade the immune system, it attacks the very cells that are trying to fight it, and it quickly hides itself...

Quotes by Seth Berkley

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.

Quotes by Serge Lang

When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off the floor at an airport. My mother, a germaphobe, got very upset. My sister, of course, got a stomach virus,...

Quotes by Scott Stossel

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

Quotes by Phil Gingrey

Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film.

Quotes by Peter Jackson

Spread Quotes

Many key concepts concerning the nature of immunity have originated from the very practical need to control virus infections.

Quotes by Peter C. Doherty

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the Virus quotes page cover?
It mixes literal health experiences, including a personal account of chronic fatigue following a difficult diagnosis, with striking metaphors like comparing language itself to a virus.
Why is virus used as a quote theme?
Beyond illness, the word works well as a metaphor for anything that spreads quickly, from indecision in a group to ideas moving through culture.
What specific personal story appears here?
One speaker describes finally getting a diagnosis for a long, unexplained fatigue and the slow process of recovery that followed. This is handled gently rather than clinically.
Are these quotes all about physical illness?
No, several use virus as a metaphor for indecision or contagious ideas rather than describing sickness directly. See Health for more literal health reflections.
What other pages pair well with this one?
Try Fear or Emotion, both of which touch on the anxiety that illness can bring.

For related reflections on worry and wellbeing, explore Fear or Emotion, both touching on how illness affects the mind.