184 Quotes About Modern-life

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

The ability to create an authentic sensual life is the new standard of modern luxury living.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

Progress has not brought about universal happiness...

Oh, no, I am dying, Ilya says. Not sick. I am born dying. But I am not so unusual. There are many like me in the world.

Life can sometimes feel like an overproduced song, with a cacophony of a hundred instruments playing all at once. Sometimes the song sounds better stripped back to just a guitar and a voice. Sometimes, when a song has too much happening, it's hard to hear the song at all.

May be it's hard to tell from us what people were like in the old days, but no one looks behind himself anymore. Everyone's rushing headlong. They're out of breath, stumbling on every step, but they keep on running...No time to look back, there's no time to look underfoot...as though someone's chasing them.

people coming out of churchconversing about the sermonsniffing at the autumn airsomething in the papers about forces of popular opinionand values which are unto our nationwhat isholding you back, Catullus?why don't you go and die?the stalks of the potato-plants are rotting fast this yearonly October nowthis evening awayA boy comes out of the wood,crossbow on his shoulder