If there’s a motto for the present scenario, it have to be “We live in unsure occasions.” The media consistently bombards us with how unprecedented every new growth is.
This type of language tempts us to think about ourselves as distinctive—in our private experiences and in our second in historical past. If there’s one factor literature can do for us, it’s to remind us that we’re not distinctive, and subsequently we’re not alone.
Literature is highly effective as a result of it speaks to the human situation. It displays our circumstances and offers which means to them.The small print is likely to be new, however the experiences of concern, isolation, boredom, anxiousness, and eager for security are usually not.
Listed here are some literary quotes for a pandemic which are surprisingly apt, even in these “unprecedented” occasions.
“’I want it needn’t have occurred in my time,’ stated Frodo. ‘So do I,’ stated Gandalf, ‘and so do all who reside to see such occasions. However that isn’t for them to resolve. All now we have to resolve is what to do with the time that’s given us.’” —J.R.R. Tolkein
“Chances are you’ll not management all of the occasions that occur to you, however you’ll be able to resolve to not be decreased by them.” —Maya Angelou
“The residing can’t give up residing as a result of the world has turned horrible and folks they love and want are killed. They will’t as a result of they don’t. The sunshine that shines into darkness and by no means goes out calls them on into life. It calls them again once more into the nice room. It calls them into their our bodies and into the world, into regardless of the world would require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and wonder, and the corporate of different family members.” —Wendell Berry
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“When ‘I’ changed with ‘We’ even sickness turns into wellness.” —Malcolm X
“We’re all beneath the identical sky and stroll the identical earth; we’re alive collectively throughout the identical second.” —Maxine Hong Kingston
“We have been collectively. I overlook the remaining.” —Walt Whitman
“‘The place are we going, Pooh?’ ‘Dwelling, Piglet. We’re going dwelling as a result of that’s the most effective factor to do proper now.’” —A.A. Milne
“House is the nicest phrase there’s.” —Laura Ingalls Wilder
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“One scenario—perhaps one alone—might drive me to homicide: household life, togetherness.” —Patricia Highsmith
