The world is currently held captive by the novel COVID-19 and world leaders and citizens are hugely dependent on healthcare professionals to bring some respite. Though the death toll keeps increasing every minute, there remains some hope that humankind will get through this ordeal as well since there are reports of people recovering from the disease. This isn’t the first time that a pandemic has bought everything to a standstill or wreaked havoc on a country’s flourishing economy. The world has witnessed several pandemics, which claimed billions of lives and reminded the world of Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” theory. History is proof that we have seen the worst pandemics, lost millions of people, but eventually, bounced back. In bleak times like these, let’s revisit the pandemics that ravaged the world, but set the world straight about the frailty and strength of human life.