Modern Life Quotes

Like a speeding trainI am passing by...I don’t knowwhere I’m headingwith whom or whyall I know is thatI will never, everpass from here againall I know is I’m skidding forwardon this track of life.

~ Sanober Khan

sometimes I hearscreaming like a childand wake upto find it’s me

~ Stephen Fitzsimons

Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that's lacking breaks - a swarm of noise blanketing the valuable data beneath.

~ Michael Harris

I felt like I wasn’t living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn’t be if I’d been born in 1929.

~ Miranda July

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death, the modern man's worst fear is just death

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.

~ Bryant Mcgill

To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly reminded that, thanks to science and technology, change and improvement are continuous and relentless. This is part of the reason we must keep checking the news in the first place: we might at any moment be informed of some extraordinary development that will fundamentally alter reality. Time is an arrow following a precarious, rapid and yet tantalizingly upward trajectory.

~ Alain De Botton

Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice. First notice the difference. And then, every time, choose.

~ Michael Harris

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.

~ Simon Du Plock

Progress has not brought about universal happiness...

~ Adam Leith Gollner

Now everything is done by machines, technology has relieved you of much work. What to do? You become aggressive, you fight, you get angry. Without any reason or rhyme, you become angry – suddenly you flare up. Everybody knows that this is foolish, even you in your cooler moments know that that was foolish. But why did you flare up unnecessarily? The excuse was not enough. The real reason is not that there was some situation; the real reason is you have so much energy, so much petrol overflowing, inflammable, that any moment it can be active. That is why after anger you feel relaxed, after anger you feel a little well-being coming to you.

~ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we’d still be riding bicycles.

~ Natasha Tsakos

I’m sorry to pull you out of your classes, but your adviser understands,” Kitteredge said. “He’s a friend of the family.”So that’s it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me.

~ Don Winslow

Life today has become a series of spectacles to be viewed, not actions to be lived.

~ Pete Sanders

Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it.

~ Michael Harris

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

~ Jaron Lanier

To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!

~ Steven Magee

In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a century of 'too little time'.

~ Joshua Krook