Pandemic Quotes
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“It is the poets, artists, and musicians that will carry us through the pandemic attacks into a new reality. They are the ones who tell us how to navigate, breathe, feel, think, enjoy, and fully live our lives. (鈥淏ecause the world had corona鈥�)”
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“Schizophrenic pandemic aggression may keep us in the confinement of our physical arrest. Still, if we have no other tools in our shed, we have to grind our teeth, take a deep breath, sharpen our awareness, and use the time to recognize what is essential in life. ("Corporeal prison").”
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“The frightening assaults of pandemic terror have vastly increased our vulnerability. At the outset, hope and humor were able to alleviate the sabotage of our living together, until bit by bit, the raging roars and the thundering crashes of the death toll called the shots. The ground zero of our mental structure must inevitably make us remold another thinking pattern. ("What do they think behind their dirty aprons?" )”
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“After facing the relentless pandemic showdowns, many long for the glow of a new dawn and crave bright life stories with liberating slapsticks to shatter silenced desolation and pent-up rage, restoring self-value and broken identity.”
― Stilling our Mind
― Stilling our Mind

“Death represents the ultimate absurdity: it is unpredictable and inevitable. Yet, we continue living as though we can escape it. The randomness of fate strikes even harder when pandemic-stricken people live under heavy existential burdens. ("Living on probation" )”
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“Moments from their life together flickered: their first time making love. Eating pizza on the floor of their city apartment. The way he gently laid his thumb to still her wildly twitching eye. Who was he now? Who was she? What was happening? 鈥� Yes, my partner is a thief. A thief in the night.”
― The Potrero Complex
― The Potrero Complex

“Missing: A teenaged girl with lanky, blonde hair and a sunburst tattoo on her cheek. The holographic posters, brighter than day itself, lit up the air on every block of Main Street.”
― The Potrero Complex
― The Potrero Complex
“We have a chance to do something extraordinary. As we head out of this pandemic we can change the world. Create a world of love. A world where we are kind to each other. A world were we are kind no matter what class, race, sexual orientation, what religion or lack of or what job we have. A world we don't judge those at the food bank because that may be us if things were just slightly different. Let love and kindness be our roadmap.”
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“These so-called bleak times are necessary to go through in order to get to a much, much better place.”
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“The world is paralyzed, and humanity is in quarantine. It is a strange symmetry that I was born in one pandemic and will die during another.”
― Violeta
― Violeta
“Trade and collaboration, the transfer of goods, people and ideas, are central to supporting health systems as well as developing and rolling out tests, treatments, and cures. We cannot respond effectively alone. We have to respond collectively.”
― The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
― The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

“They are counting the dead.
They ask the old to die willingly.
Sign here, please. There will be
no mourners, no funeral.
Wind is our choir, owl our plainsong.
Birds sing our penillion.
Silence in the first spring leaves
is prayer, last rights and requiem.
- The Hours: Sext”
― The Silence
They ask the old to die willingly.
Sign here, please. There will be
no mourners, no funeral.
Wind is our choir, owl our plainsong.
Birds sing our penillion.
Silence in the first spring leaves
is prayer, last rights and requiem.
- The Hours: Sext”
― The Silence

“There are no commuters, no children jostling for school buses, no taxis, no old men in hats driving in the centre of the road. It should feel like heaven but, as Nelson drives through the old city gates, he's reminded of science fiction films where towns have been taken over by lizard people or filled with replicants. If this is the future, he doesn't like it.”
― The Locked Room
― The Locked Room

“The churches are all closed. She was surprised how shocked she'd been to hear this news. Judy might be a lapsed Catholic, but she'd always assumed that, all her life, mass would be carrying on somewhere. Thinking of the silent churches, the unconsumed communion wafers, the empty chalices, makes her feel strangely panicky.”
― The Locked Room
― The Locked Room

“As a mere infant I narrowly survived a brutal civil war that took 3 million lives. As an adult I narrowly survived a horrific pandemic that took millions of lives. What else is there to survive? The challenges that increase with survival.”
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“The eventuality of a global pandemic was certain, leaving uncertain only the timing and impact.”
― Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
― Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Like those moments when you told us that you were tired and wanted to go. Was there any notice from heaven?”
― Death of a Loved One In the Time of Pandemic
― Death of a Loved One In the Time of Pandemic

“This is just a blip in this larger spectrum of universal being, and one day, we will no longer have to wave our goodbyes again.”
― Death of a Loved One In the Time of Pandemic
― Death of a Loved One In the Time of Pandemic

“In my 6-week stay in hospital (4 of them in the intensive care unit) for the treatment of Covid-19 that nearly killed me, I fought acute pneumonia, pulmonary embolism and thrombosis 鈥攁ll at the same time. To check the thrombosis, I had surgery. Had the surgery failed to check it, the doctors were going to amputate my left leg. That would have meant that, though I had come to the hospital with nothing, I left a LEGacy.”
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“In my 6-week stay in hospital (4 of them in the intensive care unit) for the treatment of Covid-19 that nearly killed me, I fought acute pneumonia, pulmonary embolism and thrombosis 鈥攁ll at the same time. To check the thrombosis, I had surgery. Had the surgery failed to check it, the doctors were going to amputate my left leg. Had that happened, that would have meant that, though I had come to the hospital with nothing, I left a LEGacy.”
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