Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp. — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous? — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
“People these days can’t seem to tolerate one moment without entertainment!” — Samuel A. Aykroyd Copy Share Image
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Users scroll through their feeds and look for something that isn’t there— what a perfect hamster wheel: unlimited content for a lonely… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame,… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will… — Danzae Pace Copy Share Image
“There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
“Whatever it’s called, its pitch relies on glamour shots of earnest young men with dishevelled, flowing hair living in rural settings unsullied… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“Have you ever noticed how many fences there're getting to be? And the signs they got on them: no hunting, no hiking,… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“She’d discovered a fact of modern life by standing at a cash register for hours: mindless work could nevertheless fill up your… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
I had been reading a lot of J.G. Ballard in the 90's and was fascinated by the idea of the vapid consumer… — Miles Aldridge Copy Share Image
“Humans are cognitive misers because their basic tendency is to default to Type I processing mechanisms of low computational expense. Using less… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“Now everything is done by machines, technology has relieved you of much work. What to do? You become aggressive, you fight, you… — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Who today reflects that in the Battle of the Somme alone, where every man was an eager volunteer of ‘Kitchener’s Army’, more… — Arthur Stanley Gould Lee Copy Share Image
“The Japanese see the seasons as signposts, visible reminders of our own natural rhytms. In modern life, these often get disrupted, as… — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
“Being in flight is one of the most unnatural, extraordinary, ordinary experiences of modern life. When we climb to 30,000 feet, our… — Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Copy Share Image
“El Greco and Van Gogh shared several passions beyond art. Both were religious and disliked the materialism of their respective ages. Neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
“In the frenzy of modern life we lose sight of the real value of humanity. People become the sum total of what… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity. — Rocko Copy Share Image
“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men. — Jessica Savitch Copy Share Image
“The artist’s secret lies in fear and awe. Our times have turned them into terror and dismay.” — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
“The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder in modern life.” — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
