Selfies Quotes

“The addiction to our mobiles may insidiously unlock evil actions by helplessly surrendering to the plague of blatant indifference, arrogant inattention, and flighty bee-lining and sophisticated acts of revenge. Smartphones may unstitch positive points in our lives and incidentally enchant us by instant selfies but, with some, they might inexorably trigger off shabby and despicable practices. ("Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Selfies, they call 'em, and that makes sense 'cause even though they're sending these pictures to others, it still smells like selfish to me. Is that why they call it an "I phone"? 'Cause it's all about me me me. Like talking to hear yourself talk.”
― David Duchovny

“In the fancy spectacle of life, aspire to find a joy that does not need an audience.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Taking a lot of selfies doesn’t mean you live an examined life.”
― Gina Barreca

“Until you showed up, I thought we were going to have some fun. Maybe play some games, throw a party, break into a top security building and take selfies? You pick, though I’m leaning toward the latter. I’d love to see the inside of the Pentagon.”
― P.D. Atkerson, Phantom Thief

“We are imperfect creatures created with egotistical defects, insecurities and an incomprehensible desire for perfection and the excessive use of social media feeds the raging fires within, most of the time adding salt to wounds we never knew existed and at times creating new ones.”
― Aysha Taryam

“There is enchantment in wondering...in seeing a beautiful portrait every now and then rather than an overabundance of the overexposed; I wanted the figure before me to remain a magnificent mystery, like any alluring woman is as the rarity of a thing is what makes it valuable, even an enigma, and when something or someone is that, they become captivating.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Ten short years ago, nobody had ever heard of a selfie. But today every decent cell phone has not one but two cameras, so you can take idiotic duck face pictures. And don't forget the billion dollar selfie-stick industry. Capitalism has found a whole new way to turn our vanity into profit.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance

“The purpose of a camera is to capture memories, not replace them.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gospel of Technology

“Selfies have begun to replace memories – likes and comments have begun to replace lasting conversations – illusive friends and followers lists have begun to replace real reliable friendship. And this is nothing to be taken for granted.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gospel of Technology

“We are often deceived by a selfie into thinking that someone does not think that they are ugly.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If any of the great avatars - Buddha, Jesus, Khrishna, Mohammed - were present in human form on this planet today, what would they be doing? I doubt they would be posting selfies.⁠”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Just as one goes on a fast or a body cleanse you owe it to yourselves to detox your mind, it will not be easy but easy never yielded lasting results.”
― Aysha Taryam

“No, the great thing about selfie sticks is that they send annoying people out into the world with a built-in means with which to thrash them. -Bucky Katt”
― Darby Conley, Catabunga!: A Get Fuzzy Collection

“Selfies often deceive us into believing that some people love themselves, or the way they look.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The minute you start saying something - "Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!" - you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity, the second is madness.”
― Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves

“In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense”
― Munia Khan

“All smiles for the camera are fake.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In an overwhelming attempt to capture memories, people have forgotten to make memories.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gospel of Technology

“Sex only sells so much. Promoting authority and capability with your online content over sexy selfies and spammy self hype creates better connections, contacts, and conversions to profit.”
― Loren Weisman

“Selfie filters are lies. Lies!”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“One of the main effects of social media is our confusing of someone’s obsession with their appearance with self-love or confidence.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Live in the moment, not in the cloud.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Maybe we're all obsessed with taking selfies not because we're all narcissists, but because after a while, living one's life solely from behind the eyeballs can become a bit terrifying. It's the same reason we stare at ourselves in the mirror: to make sure we're still there, the character of our life movie.”
― Chase Griffin, What's On the Menu?

“Service over selfies, that is life for the unselfish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Click Less, Live More (The Sonnet)

Moments are vessel for memories,
Don't waste them on snobbish hypes.
A memory cherished with a loved one,
Is worth more than a billion likes.
The less devices you have to charge,
The more charge you have for your mind.
The less you obsess over convenience,
The more you develop actual insight.
Purpose of camera is to capture memory,
Not to desecrate the moments seeking attention.
Purpose of a picture is to rejuvenate emotions,
Even a thousand pictures are useless without emotion.
Click less, live more - that is the motto of wellness.
Or else, click more, sick more - there is no treatment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Click less, live more.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Cameras are supposed to help you relive a moment, but if you never live the moment in the first place, because you are too busy taking pictures, how will you relive it!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Break your addiction of likes and share,
Outgrow the lure of all golden snare.
Focus on your walk, not on outside talk,
Sun's glow always makes the vermin glare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Here was my generation; lost of all hope, bereft of all ideas, struggling between a desire to be left alone, and a push by the crowd to be out in the crowd itself; to be there, captured in a photograph, swinging between dances and clubs and selfies in late-night booze ups between this side of heaven and the not-so-great other side; flung out onto walls and celebrated as celebrities, silent and still in cheap all-night bars; cheap nights and cheap regrets; no religion; post-morality; losing out on cold winter mornings with outcasts and nerds despised by a growing group of same-thinkers, self-fostering a public image of themselves; when their private lives were oh so sad and lonely, scrolling through feeds of parties they were at or were never at all, hoping to God that their dreams would still exist come morning.”
― Joshua Krook, A Thing Beyond Hope