Pandemic Quotes

“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. (“Because the world had corona”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“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?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“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").”
― Erik Pevernagie

“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.”
― Erik Pevernagie, 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" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“This is the time we have to walk stepping on the storm.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“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? … Yes, my partner is a thief. A thief in the night.”
― Amy L. Bernstein, 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.”
― Amy L. Bernstein, 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.”
― Johnny Corn

“These so-called bleak times are necessary to go through in order to get to a much, much better place.”
― David Lynch

“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.”
― Isabel Allende, Violeta

“COVID-19, are you going to be naughty or nice to me?”
― Steven Magee

“The eventuality of a global pandemic was certain, leaving uncertain only the timing and impact.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Through sickness I became notable.”
― Steven Magee

“Mental illness is an underreported epidemic today as social media addiction and less than optimal mental states quietly go hand in hand.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“I spent my time while being sickly becoming famous.”
― Steven Magee

“COVID-19, I am watching you!”
― Steven Magee

“Having had COVID-19, I would prefer being infected with COVID-19 rather than the flu!”
― Steven Magee

“Mental illness is an international crisis!”
― Steven Magee

“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.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Most of the youths of the world are not reading. And that’s a pandemic.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Like those moments when you told us that you were tired and wanted to go. Was there any notice from heaven?”
― Anthony Shieh, 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.”
― Anthony Shieh, 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 —all 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.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“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 —all 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.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“From the moment Ebola enters your bloodstream, the war is already lost, you are almost certainly doomed. You can't fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: the Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

“Will we make it safely through this upheaval? Will things go back to normal? I don’t know. I hope so. I hope the prognosis for all of us is good. But for now, I’m keeping my head down and doing what is required.

I’m mothering my children. I’m doing my part to hold our home together. I’m reassuring the people I love, and letting them reassure me. It’s remarkable how strong we’ve all become.”
― Tracy K. Smith

“There are many pandemics in today’s world, some less purely imaginary than others, and of these the pathological need for ever-increasing complexity nears the top of the list.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“A place outside time. This is the phrase I overhear my husband using as he tries to describe Florida to his father over the phone. His father lives in a high-rise condo in New Jersey, and he is concerned that we are still down here. On the news, there is constant talk about Florida’s post-pandemic spiral. Speculation about whether the state is experiencing an ecological and spiritual succession. There is talk about militias creeping out of the swamp. There is talk of vandals. There is talk of literal highway robbery. (Our Cro-Magnon governor denies any of this is happening, even though there are reports that some of these forces are amassing in his name.) For the time being, I can ghostwrite my books and shop specials at the grocery and take my niece to the water park, but no one knows how much longer this version of our world will last. “Sometimes I can’t believe a place like this exists,” my husband says as we speed down a gleaming white limestone road that cuts through a palm forest, or ride an airboat around a swollen lake. Florida has a past, as all places do, but these days everyone is uncertain about its future.”
― Laura van den Berg, State of Paradise

“In the ER, a voice asked, "Do you know where you are?" I only knew I was trapped inside a great pandemonium. A horrific brightness. Even these days I am, at times, surprised to find myself unsure of my whereabouts. For example, I thought that I was pretty well acquainted with the world I lived in, but then the pandemic happened and that world transformed into something else.”
― Laura van den Berg, State of Paradise