A Quote by Orson Welles

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

Orson Welles

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Orson Welles
American - Actor
May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

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And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.

Julian Barnes

The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting, life is too short.... Time is the best avenger if we wait, the years speed by, and on their wings bear healing, life is too short for aught but high endeavor-too short for spite, but long enough for love. And love lives on forever and forever.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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C. S. Lewis

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John Hench

I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

Daryl Hannah

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Fay Weldon

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Robert Harris

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Helen Fisher

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Dorothy Gilman

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Toni Morrison

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