28 Quotes About Instant-gratification

Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society

We’re becoming impatient and lazy and we’re allowing this to shape our approach to our relationships. But successful relationships aren’t handed over on a plate, or downloaded at the click of a button, or ours in twenty-four hours for just £9.99 extra. Relationships are up there with food, water, clothing and shelter and you can’t just buy them or trade them in for an upgrade.

We’ve become so addicted to instant gratification that we’re blind to the impact it has on our lives.

In democratic times, enjoyment is keener than in aristocratic centuries, and above all the number of those who taste it is infinitely greater; but on the other hand, one must recognize that hopes and desires are more often disappointed, souls more arouse and more restive, and cares more burning.

We want instant lunch, instant cure, instant miracles, instant salary, instant success— instant everything. This instant civilization, we have obsessed with, has made us grow a tad too impatient in virtually everything about life. And, of course, that doesn’t serve us so well.

There are so many downsides to the message of instant gratification.

The trap of instant gratification is one of the greatest traps of humanity in modern times.

Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.