184 Quotes About Modern-life

This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.He is the Wise who knows not.And his footsteps on the road click tic-tac, tic-tac

...apart from the seemingly magical internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953...The wonders portrayed in THE JETSONS, the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass...Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down compared to what people saw two or three generations ago.

What a lovely thing, to shut up and listen and not broadcast anything back. There’s a certain serenity in it and even a kind of light grace.

It's next to impossible to slip off the radar in today's world. Sometimes the world comes looking for you all guns blazing, and it's difficult to escape its crosshairs.

We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime. [...] Most of it is garbage. Most of it needs excising. Even if we’re fearful that we might be missing something. We are probably not. We have to discard. We have to throw things away, cleanse the doors of our perception and work out what is worth looking at, what is worth remembering, what are the images that matter, what will we retain.

We live in a world of many alarms, none of which sound our true concerns.

Modern life makes so many of us strangely empty.

Not every madman is an agent of the divine,Not all who pass are allowed to come through.

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