Best Modern Life Quotations

102 Modern Life quotes by 87 unique authors

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. — A. N. Wilson
I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's… — Edward Zwick
Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life,… — David Mamet
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.… — George Orwell
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest… — Oscar Wilde
There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is… — Philip K. Dick
Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you have not chosen… — Os Guinness
We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That… — Anais Nin
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot… — David Foster Wallace
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly… — David Foster Wallace
Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over. — Hayao Miyazaki
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life. — Oscar Wilde
Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions… — Thomas Merton
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only… — Kurt Vonnegut
It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind. — Ben Aaronovitch
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of… — Susan Sontag
Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production. — Aubrey McClendon
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with… — Viswanathan Anand
The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought. — Robin Marantz Henig
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. — Robert Casey
Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in… — Tom Shales
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. — Alfred North Whitehead
If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a million tear-stained eyes Don't be… — Pink Floyd
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. — Matthew Arnold
Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and… — Unknown Author

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