Best Scrolling Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But the whole idea of reading as a pastime has somehow dropped off my life menu, and the time I used to spend in fictional worlds is now spent incessantly refreshing the news. I sometimes still try to kid myself into believing that this pointless consuming of current affair is important for my understanding of reality and even for my survival. But deep inside, I know that the momentous piece of news—the one that will supposedly pull me and the entire Middle East out of the deep pit we’ve fallen into—will never come, and all my endless refreshing and scrolling is just another stage in outsourcing my emotional world. After all, it’s a lot easier to wait for updates from a dismaying reality than to listen, feel, and submit to someone else’s imagination and hopes.”

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Author:Etgar Keret

“i indulge in many drugs, seeking that high— but the feed is the ultimate sky. nothing beats the rush of dopamine, mindlessly scrolling through the screen.”

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Book:the void and the feed

Source: the void and the feed

“Antes de la aparición de internet, los errores de alguien podían ser recordados dentro de su comunidad o su círculo íntimo. Empezar de cero en otro lugar era, al menos, una posibilidad. Actualmente, las personas son perseguidas por su doble allá donde vayan. Incluso después de muertas, habrá quien las exhume y saquee su tumba, no con la intención de conocer y perdonar, sino con afán de represalia y venganza. Por debajo de esta actitud subyace el extraño instinto revanchista de nuestra época, un instinto hace que nos creamos mejores que nuestros antepasados, pues sabemos cómo se comportaron y que nosotros los habríamos hecho mejor. Detrás de esto se oculta una falacia colosal: evidentemente, la gente de hoy en día cree que habría actuado mejor porque sabe cómo termina la historia, pero nuestros ancestros no contaban con ese lujo.”

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Book:The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

Source: The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

“It seems that we are distracted because we are always in search of something better. We always want to see a different place or a different person’s life, as ours passes us by. We don’t pay attention to our own lives, therefore we want someone else’s. In a way, this is the definition of our social media feed. I want your life; please ‘like’ mine and tell me that it’s good enough. The thing is, most of us live the life that we are searching for. We just aren’t aware enough to see it. We are half present, therefore half appreciative, and our relationships suffer because of it.”

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Author:Eric Overby

“Much of my day can consist of me being lost in thoughts. An equal amount of the day can be lost in scrolling a Facebook feed, mindless and solitary in a room full of people. Now add in the amount of time that I sleep. This is the recipe for a lot of time with little attention.”

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Author:Eric Overby

“Windows 10 scrolling blue circle, why are you so mean to me?”

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Author:Steven Magee

“You scroll. You feel. You judge. You click. But do you pause? Do you see what you’re chasing? Do you notice what’s pulling you?”

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Book:The Tao of Psychedelics

Source: The Tao of Psychedelics

“They lose themselves in pixels and scrolls.”

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Book:Tajrish

Source: Tajrish

“If you scroll long enough, your phone will become your grave. In the name of telecommunication, algorithms generate the new stoneage.”

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Book:The Humanitarian Dictator

Source: The Humanitarian Dictator

“You see the movie with the music and the editing and all the parts that you weren't there for when it was being filmed, and you really appreciate all the names that are scrolling by. You realize that you accomplished so much.”

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Author:Diane Lane

“I get scripts all the time, but I read this [Baggage Claim] thoroughly, and I loved it. It was light hearted, cute, sweet, and funny. I told my agent that I liked the script, but I did let my acceptance of the role slide a little, until I was watching television one day; scrolling through the stations, and there was this play. And I don't like plays made for the screen. But, this one, "Suddenly Single", caught my attention.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“I personally like the idea of newspapers. It's a good format. You can read it in whatever order you want. You can glance at it. There is something about a single screen and scrolling through pages that just doesn't have the same appeal.”

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Author:Matt Groening

“I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.”

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Author:James MacDonald

“Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names under dialed calls, praying to anyone who will listen. God. Baby Jesus. Saint Thomas the doubter. Saint Whoever, patron saint of losers. Praying, Please, please, don't let it be true. The first name shatters him. The second makes his head spin.”

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Author:Melina Marchetta

“I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.”

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Author:Diablo Cody

“No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core.”

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Book:Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age

Source: Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age

“No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.”

Source: Station Eleven: A novel