Quotes about Modern life

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Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. — Neel Burton, The Meaning of Madness
Addiction is the primary way people escape the modern world. Unfortunately, it is destroying the modern world. — Christyl Rivers
People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a clevernes — Alexei Maxim Russell
The stories we read in books, what's presented to us as being interesting - they have very little to do with real life a — Paul Murray, The Mark and the Void
As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like — Edward Abbey
It fascinated me how depression and anxiety overlap with post-traumatic stress disorder. Had we been through some trauma — Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
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
Venice was a contrast from Los Angeles itself, where you might see a woman with $15,000 tits, a face frozen in place by — Jackie Haze, Borderless
He laid there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupidly independent he'd — A.M. Homes
We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined depri — Anthon St. Maarten
But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, — Ali Smith
Over the years I've received thousands of e-mails looking for guidance. Some have real problems — some talk about monkeys and poo--though those people may also have real problems.
Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man think — Alexei Maxim Russell
Being busy is a distraction and I am sure that doing nothing, resting and sleeping are all good cures for modern life. I — Joanna Runciman, The Radiant Woman's Handbook
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer — Milan Kundera
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its ba — George Orwell, 1984
Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than plann — Vikram Roy
There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot! — Vikram Roy