Famous quotes containing the words virus and/or disease:
“[If a woman athlete who had contracted the AIDS virus admitted that she] had been with one hundred or two hundred men, theyd call her a slut, and the corporations would drop her like a lead balloon.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“And this disease that was Swanns love had so multiplied, it was so intimately tied to all of Swanns habits, to all his acts, to his thoughts, to his health, to his sleep, to his life, even to what he desired for his afterlife, his love was so much a part of him that it could not be extracted from him without destroying him entirely: as is said in surgery, his love was inoperable.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)