Modern Life Quotes
It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.
With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously wrong with human health in the modern world.
Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are from any form of terrorism.
To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!
People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.
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'.
People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to l
sometimes I hearscreaming like a childand wake upto find it’s me
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.
Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future.
The speed of modern life is an oppressive thing, and the corporate world is quick to punish those with an honest heart.
When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway.
As far as I’m concerned, the only thing sweeter than seeing a friend is that friend canceling on me.
There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.
Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!
While I still did not know what self- actualization that sat on the top level of the pyramid meant, I could believethat if I knew I would be able to say something positive about it as well inmy life.
He remembered believing there had been a time when monsters roamed the earth. The brave hearted fought flesh-and-blood dragons instead of shadowboxing their inner demons, the sport of modern man.
...we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.
Addiction is the primary way people escape the modern world. Unfortunately, it is destroying the modern world.
Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.
Over the years I've received thousands of e-mails looking for guidance. Some have real problems
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.
Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.
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.
Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.
Progress has not brought about universal happiness...
Life today has become a series of spectacles to be viewed, not actions to be lived.
Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it.
