Top Modern Life Quotes

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Certainly we can say that the pace of modern life, increased and supported by our technology in general and our personal electronics in particular, has resulted in a short attention span and an addict...

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 dro...

The modern human lives in a cesspool of man-made electromagnetic radiation.

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

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.

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

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

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

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.

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.

Y lo que, por el contrario, me sucede a mí en las raras horas de placer, lo que para mí es delicia, suceso, elevación y éxtasis, eso no lo conoce, ni lo ama, ni lo busca el mundo más que si acaso en l...

Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet d...

Addiction is the primary way people escape the modern world. Unfortunately, it is destroying the modern world.

Modern life is a centrifuge; it throws people in every direction.

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...

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

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

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

But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll find out - and where the who...