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Quotes About Modern Life - TO BE THOUGHT ABOUT DEEPLY
 

 

"When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway."
― Roger Hedden
 

 

"We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry."
― Francis Chan,
 

 

"My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal"
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
 

 

"The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free"
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

 

 

"We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation."
― Anthon St. Maarten

 

 

"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

 

"This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.
He is the Wise who knows not.
And his footsteps on the road click tic-tac, tic-tac"
― Cristiane Serruya,
 

 

"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,
 

 

"Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don't want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons."
― Roman Payne

 

 

"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."
― Oscar Wilde,
 

 

"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."
― Edward Abbey

 

"The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death"
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
 

 

"Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future."
― Vikram Roy

 

"Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating."
― Neel Burton,
 

 

 

"The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time and place for production and minimize the unstructured travel time in between…Too, the rhetoric of efficiency around these technologies suggests that what cannot be quantified cannot be valued-that that vast array of pleasures which fall into the category of doing nothing in particular, of woolgathering, cloud-gazing, wandering, window-shopping, are nothing but voids to be filled by something more definite, more production, or faster-paced…I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought or thoughtfulness."
― Rebecca Solnit,
 

 

 

"And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos."
― Michael Foley,
 

 

"There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!"
― Vikram Roy

 

 

"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."
― Alain de Botton,
 

 

"Being busy is a distraction and I am sure that doing nothing, resting and sleeping are all good cures for modern life. I am not suggesting we all do nothing but sleep, however, sometimes stopping long enough to 'be' can be very powerful."
― Joanna Runciman,
 

 

"Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul."
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

 

"A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars."
― Alan S. Kesselheim,
 

 

"...apart from the seemingly magical internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953...The wonders portrayed in THE JETSONS, the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass...Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down compared to what people saw two or three generations ago."
― Tyler Cowen,
 

 

 

"The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern life, in comparison, seemed a cinch."
― Jennifer Vanderbes,
 

 

"People these days can't seem to tolerate one moment without entertainment!"
― Samuel A. Aykroyd

 

"Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people."
― Bryant McGill,
 

 

"Progress has not brought about universal happiness..."
― Adam Leith Gollner, 

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