The corona virus pandemic is nothing to laugh about and needs to be taken seriously. While we all practice social distancing, here are 12 literary quotes to help keep our spirits up as we all deal with this global crisis. Please keep safe!
1. “Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.”
– Veronica Roth, Divergent
2. “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
– Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
3. “So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”
– Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
4. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
5. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
6. “We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.”
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
7. “Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy.”
– Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
8. “Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.”
– Joseph Heller, Catch-22
9. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
10. “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War
11. “When you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
12. “Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows