“For those in the midst of the Plague it must have felt like the end of the world... To us now it seems obvious that we survived the Plague, but to people at the time it must have seemed incredible that their society continued afterwards”— Tobias Stone, medium.com
“If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: ‘How do you wish the world to be in fifty years?’ and ‘What do you want your life to be like five years from now?’ the answers are quite often preceded by a ‘Provided that there is still a world,’ and ‘Provided I am still alive.”— Hannah Arendt, nybooks.com