Pandemic Quotes

coronavirus

“Become experts on the thing that is threatening you”
— Chris Hadfield1

“Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources.”
— Abba Eban, Israeli politician and diplomat.2

“Two metres distance determines our existence.”
— Dr. John Campbell3

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
— George Santayana4

不积跬步,无以至千里;不积小流,无以成江海。
— Xunxi5

“The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about.”
— Jonathan Harnisch, The Brutal Truth6

“You don’t stop fighting a war in the middle, just because its gotten expensive or burdensome. And you can’t ask a virus for a truce.”
— Jeremy Konyndyk7

“We won the war against Coronavirus the same way we won the war against Vietnam. It got too expensive so we pretended that it was over”
— Alex Bobe8

“Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.”
— Moliere9


  1. Meagan Flynn, “‘Become experts on the thing that is threatening you’: Advice from astronauts on isolation on Earth,” Washington Post, March 25, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/25/astronauts-tips-coronavirus-isolation/ (Accessed March 30, 2020).↩︎

  2. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/11/exhaust-alternatives/↩︎

  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=29&v=s6JrkLvsKtw&feature=emb_logo↩︎

  4. https://bigthink.com/the-proverbial-skeptic/those-who-do-not-learn-history-doomed-to-repeat-it-really↩︎

  5. https://github.com/yihui/testit↩︎

  6. https://www.amazon.com/Brutal-Truth-Jonathan-Harnisch/dp/1522920722↩︎

  7. https://twitter.com/JeremyKonyndyk/status/1257489748039553024↩︎

  8. https://twitter.com/alexbbobe/status/1256616154518433793↩︎

  9. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/moliere_378426↩︎