Instagram Quotes

We are imperfect creatures created with egotistical defects, insecurities and an incomprehensible desire for perfection and the excessive use of social media feeds the raging fires within, most of the time adding salt to wounds we never knew existed and at times creating new ones.

~ Aysha Taryam

The first few days felt quite surreal for gone was that filtered world of perfect angles made up of peoples’ best moments and selves. Gone was the wormhole that one jumped into at the sign of any awkward silence or pause in conversation.

~ Aysha Taryam

The confusion created by mode of fictitious imagery, staged to produce a perceived idea of character or life, does only that - confuses.

~ Nicole Bonomi

Behind him, he heard Ronan say, I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck off.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

How different would people act if they couldn't show off on social media? Would they still do it?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

What social-media really becomes after years of use is a constant stream of information both verbal and visual that at first drenches the mind, quenching its thirst for knowledge, and subduing its curiosity slowly but surly transforms into a torrent that renders the brain heavy and the mind restless.

~ Aysha Taryam

The Arab poet Silm Al Khaser wrote “He who watches people dies of worry” and his words have never been more potent than in today’s world where all people do is watch others and cater to them in return.

~ Aysha Taryam

Uncoincidentally, Instagram was also the first social-media platform to which the only sane reaction was hate.

~ Jarett Kobek

We sometimes take photos (or record a video) so that we can later see what was happening while we were busy taking photos (or recording a video).

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting...if ever it was.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

~ Susan Sontag