Quotes about Modern life

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Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway. — Roger Hedden, Bodies, Rest and Motion.
Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. — Roman Payne
Certainly we can say that the pace of modern life, increased and supported by our technology in general and our personal — Arthur Rosenfeld
People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to l — Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road
We are just too blinded by the phrase, "grow old together" and learning its meaning from hopeless movies and novels that — Mansi Laus Deo
As far as I’m concerned, the only thing sweeter than seeing a friend is that friend canceling on me. — Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different
Modern life is, for most of us, a kind of serfdom to mortgage, job and the constant assault to consume. Although we have — Monty Don, My Roots: A Decade in the Garden
There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-imp — Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even t — Milan Kundera, Immortality
We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy t — Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whippin — Jennifer Vanderbes, Strangers at the Feast
The modern human lives in a cesspool of man-made electromagnetic radiation. — Steven Magee
When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly d — Michael Harris
While I still did not know what self- actualization that sat on the top level of the pyramid meant, I could believethat — Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
He remembered believing there had been a time when monsters roamed the earth. The brave hearted fought flesh-and-blood d — Katherine Starbird, Reenie Gyse
Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally — Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
...we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones. — Charlie Brooker
With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things — Steven Magee, Health Forensics
Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are — Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity