Logging Off Quotes

“Technology has a way of regimenting your existence, which only becomes truly apparent once you have to do without it. It’s almost as if all that reliance on computers starts to turn you into a bit of a computer yourself.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“wonder”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“Then it hits me – I’m talking to this complete stranger like I know him well, because part of me thinks I do know him well. The part of me that’s checked his Instagram feed every morning, noon and night for months.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“About the only conclusion I could reach was that I must have a tremendous capacity to ignore obvious details when I’m keen on believing in something.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“seems strange to go on social media just to declare you’re leaving social media – but of course nothing happens these days unless you have mentioned it on social media. It’s a rather strange Catch-22-like state of affairs.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“you just let life come at you every now and again, you might be pleasantly surprised – and you might find you enjoy yourself a lot more.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“And then there’s Kim Kardashian . . . She wouldn’t have a career without the Internet and social media. Surely that’s the web’s greatest crime, isn’t it?”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“I’ve spent the morning googling digital detoxes”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“It seems strange to go on social media just to declare you’re leaving social media – but of course nothing happens these days unless you have mentioned it on social media.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“Have you ever tried to affect a pleasant smile when you really need a poo? It’s rather like trying to look relaxed while white-water rafting.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“if you just let life come at you every now and again, you might be pleasantly surprised – and you might find you enjoy yourself a lot more. If you don’t get eaten by a vampire, that is.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“simply”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“I met the woman I love. And I would follow her anywhere. Including on Instagram and Twitter.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“In my limited experience of history, I know that no one who starts a movement ever comes out of the other end in good shape. They usually get killed by the authorities, their own followers or a cyanide capsule.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“Feeling free does not also stop you from feeling lost. The two emotions can sit beside each other quite comfortably, it turns out.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“Oh Christ, I’ve given her hope. What an awful mistake to make.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“Back inside, I decide to make myself an angry cup of coffee. This is much like a normal cup of coffee, only it contains twice the amount of coffee, three times the amount of sugar and a quarter of the amount of milk.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“Because logging off isn’t something you should only do once. It’s something you should do every single day.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“Living a happy life is about knowing how much of yourself you want to let people in on.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“if you just let life come at you every now and again, you might be pleasantly surprised – and you might find you enjoy yourself a lot more.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“A detox that has led me into meeting way too”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“many bizarre individuals, it has to be said.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“While I am quite happy to wax lyrical about the Internet’s joys, I am deliberately forgetting about all of its shortcomings. The way it lets truly awful people have more of a voice than they ever should have. The way it turns societies against each other, and drops us all into our own silos,”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“If I ever get around to writing a horror-movie version of my life, it will be called The Quacking of the Duck and will be banned in forty-three countries.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“It’s almost as if all that reliance on computers starts to turn you into a bit of a computer yourself. Not a good one, though. Maybe a ZX Spectrum.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“I have enough light to piss in.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“I’ve been so used to outsourcing my general knowledge to Google that when I have to fall back on the contents of my brain, I find that it’s a sluggish, stupid thing, with far less recall of facts than it should have.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“In life, when an opportunity to see how others live arrives, you should grasp it with both hands. It will broaden your horizons and make you a better person.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“You don’t need to listen to anybody else to know what’s right for you. You don’t need to follow me. You don’t need to follow anyone! You shouldn’t look to me for answers . . . any more than you should look to the people you’ve followed on social media in the past.’ I open my arms expansively. ‘You can make your own decisions!”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off

“Perhaps it’s the way he insists on coming out with those trite little aphorisms. They seem very wise and interesting in a social media post, but rather silly when spoken out loud.”
― Nick Spalding, Logging Off