Modern-life Quotes

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is a...

It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurit...

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability ...

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to l

In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to u...

Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they ...

I felt like I wasn’t living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn’t be if I’d been b...

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

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what t...

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

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only...

He laid there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupi...

There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions ...

To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly remin...

...we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.