None of This Is Serious Quotes

“I'm trapped by the concept of the present, by the idea that time is moving forward and I'm witnessing it.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“Modern life is a fiction; it feels like nothing ever changes, but when you examine its fabric, its zeros and ones, it's falling apart. We've just collectively decided to believe that it's not.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“At some point along the way, the way we receive information became more important than the information itself; it became the information. I can't count the hours I've spent scrolling on Instagram just waiting for someone to post something, anything. I'm inhabited by a desperate fear that I'll miss something, to the point that I'm willing to waste my life waiting.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“I'm tired of crying over stupid boys who aren't worth it.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“I think about Facebook and the people I’m friends with who I haven’t spoken to in years. At one point it was a status symbol to have as many friends as possible, but now my friends list is a reminder of everyone I’ve lost touch with.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“I consumed it as I always consume things, without thought or comment.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“Rory links me an article about climate change and we chat back and forth about how hopeless and apathetic we both are, which I think is flirting.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“All of these people are saying more or less the same thing, that it's okay to panic and equally okay to try and pretend things are normal, depending on what works for individual people, but they're doing a good job of acting like they're on different sides. There's nothing at the centre, no one telling me what it is I should be panicking about, only that it's okay to do so.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“Sometimes, I think the worst thing I’ve ever done for my mental health is to start caring about politics.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“A crack’s opened up in the sky, the world’s nearly ended, and the internet’s run it through the same cycle it does with every bit of information. Pulled it apart, disputed it, ground it through memes until it reached a shape suitable enough to slot into our agreed-upon reality. But the problem hasn’t gone away. I’m so tired.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“I’m so full of shame I can’t exist inside my body, so I scroll through my phone. Every other part of the world is either already awake, or hasn’t yet gone to sleep, and I’m able to read endless content. Online, you’re never alone.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“The coping mechanisms I’ve spent a decade building up are crumbling in the modern world.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“After a while, I become numb to the point where it's difficult to remember I'd even been sad in the first place. I think it's impossible for me to express emotion, let alone for me to have just done it. There's no longer a difference between being awake or asleep.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“I want to move on from now. I want to grasp the future that is available to me and stop fixating on what I've done. I'm not alone, I've never been alone; I just had the wrong idea of what loneliness meant. I want to stop pretending I believe what I've been taught happiness is: I have to find out for myself.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“Isn't it weird to think that everything is so unstable? Like, we all believe in the magic of technology; it feels so permanent but, just like that, it's gone.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“I need him, like this, right now. The problem is I can't need him any more. I don't want to stop being with him, but I can't be with him.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“Maybe I could do a Mastsers, or teach English abroad, or write a novel. Maybe I could do all three.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“I've never been so aware of the present, and the fact that moments like these come and go, and are lost for ever. It's likely, in ten years' time, I won't know any of these people any more. Some of them may even be dead. I might be dead.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious