Lockdown Quotes

“If an inmate swears at a guard, fights, or hides contraband like cigarettes or candy [Sheriff Arpaio has banned coffee, cigarettes, hot lunches, girlie mags & TV], she's kicked out of the tents and sent to lockdown--a tiny cell 10x12 feet that houses 4 women, instead of the 2 it was built for. There's no tv, no phone, & no a/c. Even though most of these women have drug problems, programs like NA or AA are considered 'privileges' forbidden to those locked down. The only way to get out of lockdown is to volunteer for the chain gang--the first & only female chain gang in the United States (as of Aug 1997). Volunteers sign a paper that says they know & accept the conditions on the chain--cleaning Phoenix streets, painting the center strip of miles of highway, & burying AZ's indigent. The accusation of 'cruel & unusual punishment' is quashed by the argument that the chain gang is purely voluntary. After all, if you prefer, you can spend the whole year in lockdown.”
― Jane Evelyn Atwood, Too Much Time: Women in Prison

“One day you will find your feet. Right now they are hidden under you.

One day you will again lose the sight of your feet. By then learn to remain grounded.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“i don’t love things enough. i love very little.
it’s just one of many things i’m gonna change one day when things are different.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss

“Lockdown might be great if we all lived in a future with replicators and emergency medical holograms and shit, but we're not there yet.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, At the End of Everything

“DOCTOR, I AM NOT SICK! I JUST LOST MY MOTIONS!”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Watching this manic desire to make or grow or do 'something', that now seems to be consuming everybody, I do feel comforted to discover I'm not the only person on this earth who has no idea what life is for, nor what is to be done with all this time aside from filling it.”
― Zadie Smith, Intimations

“Pavlov formulated his findings into a general rule in which the speed of learning positively correlated with quiet isolation. The totalitarians have followed this rule. They know they can condition their political victims most quickly if they are kept in isolation. In the totalitarian technique of thought control, the same isolation applied to the individual is applied also to the groups of people. This is the reason the civilian populations of the totalitarian countries are not permitted to travel freely and are kept away from mental and political contamination. It is the reason, to, for the solitary confinement cell and the prison camp.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“I could live this way indefinitely and I'd be all right ... I've done enough living and can now spend my time holding up the memories for contemplation, determining what it all meant. Images flood in: cities I've passed through; rooms where I've slept; friends who put me up or put up with me. In a couple of years I'll turn forty. Schopenhauer wrote that the first forty years are the text, the rest is the commentary. I see that, and yet I feel that I'm somehow at the start of a life, on the cusp, facing a future that's strange and turbulent but not entirely hopeless.”
― Rob Doyle, Autobibliography

“In March 2020, the City of Tucson went into COVID-19 lockdown.”
― Steven Magee

“The pandemic’s mandatory lockdown has set in motion an array of economic, political and global instabilities.”
― Asa Don Brown

“THERE IS A PROFIT IN DARKNESS
THEY HATE TO SEE THE SUN RISE

ANDHERE MEIN MUNAAFA ZIYAADA HAI RAAZ
NARAAZ HAIN SAB, KYUN SAHAR HO RAHI HAI

अंधेरे में मुनाफ़ा ज़ियादा है राज़
नाराज़ हैं सब क्यूं सहर हो रही है”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Sometimes, victory lies not so much in conquering the glorious mountain peak but in simply having survived through a fatal and deadly storm.”
― Hrishikesh Agnihotri, Enrich The World With Your Presence : HA's Original Quotes, Volume 01

“What can be locked is just our movement. If we lock our lives it would be our own decision

Our feelings, expression, creativity, spirit, enthusiasm and care can never be locked.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“You couldn't do this and you couldn't do that, but life went on.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“WE CAN'T STOP TOMORROW FROM ARRIVING BY CLOSING THE DOOR”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“YOU CANNOT WITHDRAW THE ARMY TO SURVIVE THE BATTLE”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“When all the people unlocked their doors,
they saw that the kingdom had changed.
With the towns quiet and the roads empty,
the land had grown greener and the skies
had grown bluer. The trees were taller,
there were flowers everywhere and the
air was filled with the singing of birds.”
― Jason Hook, Castle Barmy

“Amid historic isolation, we should unlock our potentials and become more creative to be able to continue existing and coexisting.”
― Nadine Sadaka Boulos

“Let's hop on hope, hoping and hopeful that someday we will hop on regular life again!”
― Harmik Vaishnav

“You don’t really need much to be happy. A nice window, a Netflix connection, a few good books, and a loaded pantry mostly does the trick. A couple of genuine friends, a well-bruised passport, a few Instagram stalkers, and an imaginary pet couldn’t hurt either.”
― Anindita Das, What The Pandemic Learned From Me

“The first-ever pandemic was the flooding that forced Noah, his family and the animals to go into the ark for the first-ever lockdown.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“A day without sensuality is like a year in lockdown.”
― Lebo Grand

“Ilf Time Never Flew by Stewart Stafford

If a horologist froze time at dusk,
And there was no day or night,
Or days, months, and years,
What then for Earth’s masters?

Winged time stilled in a bell jar,
A castaway preserved in aspic,
Or stickily-entombed in amber,
Statuesque life an infinite daymare.

Boredom creeping up slowly,
A lockdown without progress,
The horologist would thaw time,
Freeing reality’s ebb and flow.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“If Time Never Flew by Stewart Stafford

If a horologist froze time at dusk,
And there was no day or night,
Or days, months, and years,
What then for Earth’s masters?

Winged time stilled in a bell jar,
A castaway preserved in aspic,
Or stickily-entombed in amber,
Statuesque life an infinite daymare.

Boredom creeping up slowly,
A lockdown without progress,
The horologist would thaw time,
Freeing reality’s ebb and flow.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Lockdown would save lives. I was up for that. What I couldn't bend my mind around was this new currency of fear and panic.”
― Claire Dunn, Rewilding the Urban Soul: Searching for the Wild in the City

“Did you hear that, fuckface? You finally got someone to love your cold ass. You need to put that shit on lockdown because she is still young and naïve enough to like you.”
― L.J. Shen, Scandalous

“They are counting the dead.
They ask the old to die willingly.
Sign here, please. There will be
no mourners, no funeral.

Wind is our choir, owl our plainsong.
Birds sing our penillion.
Silence in the first spring leaves
is prayer, last rights and requiem.


- The Hours: Sext”
― Gillian Clarke, The Silence

“There are no commuters, no children jostling for school buses, no taxis, no old men in hats driving in the centre of the road. It should feel like heaven but, as Nelson drives through the old city gates, he's reminded of science fiction films where towns have been taken over by lizard people or filled with replicants. If this is the future, he doesn't like it.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room

“The churches are all closed. She was surprised how shocked she'd been to hear this news. Judy might be a lapsed Catholic, but she'd always assumed that, all her life, mass would be carrying on somewhere. Thinking of the silent churches, the unconsumed communion wafers, the empty chalices, makes her feel strangely panicky.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room

“The air is so sweet and pure that it almost takes her breath away. It's as if nature is conspiring to make lockdown a less terrifying experience. Ruth has already noticed herself becoming interested in the tracks left by the foxes and watching the progression of the blossom on her tree. She leaves food out for the birds and has secretly named a crow Corbym.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room