Modern Life Quotes

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.

Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.

The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.

It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.

They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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.

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.