Alvin Toffler Quotes

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.

When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution.

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

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.

I tried to remember how to exhale. I had to look away before it came back to me.

The thought of real-life scares me to death.

The world on the outside was tougher than I imagined. I felt allergic to fresh air, and my feet hurt from wearing shoes again. I didn't know how long I was going to live, so I did everything as fast as I could.

Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.

We're making more and more decisions every day. I think a lot of us feel overloaded by the process.

Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.

It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present.

My wits begin to turn.

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

There is simply too much to think about.

It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.

I think culture is where things change in us deeply. But right now, I think that people are very traumatised. They are very scared. Having grown up in a house with a perpetrator who was violent every day and terrorising every day, I feel like that this country is suddenly very much like the house and the family I grew up in. Every day we are glued to our phones, glued to our television; "What is this psychopath going to do next? How will he embarrass us? Who will he bully or hurt or humiliate today? It's so easy to get locked into a syndrome where the perpetrator is ruling your life.

When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.