Quotes About Quarantine
La lógica de la cuarentena —una palabra derivada de la expresión italiana <>— consistía en aislar a los enfermos para que no contagiaran a otros.
~ Orhan Pamuk
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La cuarentena es el arte de educar al pueblo aun a su pesar, y de instruirlo en la necesidad de protegerse
~ Orhan Pamuk
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When I was nineteen—which was, oh, Lord, forty years ago, it doesn't seem that long—my sister and I traveled all over Egypt," she said. "It was during the Pandemic. Quarantines were being slapped on all about us, and the Israelis were shooting Americans on sight, but we didn't care. I don't think it even occurred to us that we might be in danger, that we might catch it or be mistaken for Americans. We wanted to see the Pyramids.
~ Connie Willis
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You can't go back," Gilchrist said. "Haven't you heard? We're under quarantine, thanks to Mr. Dunworthy's carelessness.
~ Connie Willis
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If you need 144 rolls of toilet paper for a 14-day quarantine you probably should've been seeing a doctor long before COVID-19.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
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I am pleased that lying on the sofa being a slob is finally considered the responsible thing to do.
~ Matt Haig, March 2020
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Am I the only one who ate my two weeks of quarantine snacks all on the first day?
~ Internet meme, March 2020
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On average a panda bear feeds about 12 hours per day. This is the same as a human adult at home under quarantine — which is why we call it a PANDEMIC.
~ Internet meme, May 2020
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The World Health Organization announced that dogs cannot contract COVID-19. Canines previously held in quarantine may now be released. To summarize: WHO let the dogs out.
~ Internet meme, April 2020
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I haven't cut my hair since the quarantine began. Today I stepped on the scale for the first time in a while. Who knew that hair weighs so much?!
~ Author unknown, summer 2020
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The Quarantini — any martini imbibed in solitude during coronavirus lockdown
~ Internet meme, March 2020
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Quarantini — just a regular martini, but you drink it alone at home
~ Internet meme, March 2020
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Quarantini recipe — 2 parts whatever alcohol you have lying around and 1 part boredom
~ Internet meme, March 2020
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How to make a quarantini: Add 4 fl oz vodka, 1 Tbs NyQuil, 1 Tylenol PM, and garnish with a multivitamin.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
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Coronacation 2020 begins.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
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Half of us are going to come out of this isolation as amazing cooks and the other half as drunkards.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
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COVID-19 has literally gone viral.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
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With the quarantine and borders suddenly closing it could have meant suddenly being stranded on the other side of the planet. It's a shame I haven't been able to see my family in Australia but it never became an option. But certainly, when it's all over I will be heading back.
~ Ashley Zukerman
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out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need—we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts. In this way, as we throw our wealth at an abstract notion called "lifestyle," travel becomes just another accessory—a smooth-edged, encapsulated experience that we purchase in the same way we buy clothing and furniture. Not
~ Timothy Ferriss
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It seemed no amount of praying could diminish the plague's wrath. By the time city officials realized it was the rats that were causing the disease, it was too late, but Venice still enforced a decree by which all incoming vessels had to anchor offshore for a full forty days before they would be permitted to unload. To this day, the number forty—quaranta in Italian—served as a grim reminder of the origins of the word quarantine.
~ Dan Brown
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By the time city officials realized it was the rats that were causing the disease, it was too late, but Venice still enforced a decree by which all incoming vessels had to anchor offshore for a full forty days before they would be permitted to unload. To this day, the number forty—quaranta in Italian—served as a grim reminder of the origins of the word quarantine.
~ Dan Brown
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To this day, the number forty—quaranta in Italian—served as a grim reminder of the origins of the word quarantine.
~ Dan Brown
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This is one of the reasons why I believed then, and do believe still, that the shutting up houses thus by force, and restraining, or rather imprisoning, people in their own houses, as I said above, was of little or no service in the whole. Nay, I am of opinion it was rather hurtful, having forced those desperate people to wander abroad with the plague upon them, who would otherwise have died quietly in their beds.
~ Daniel Defoe
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The Canadians had Terrell. He was uninfected, in quarantine, and knew nothing.
~ China Mieville
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