Millennials Quotes

“Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better”
― Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now

“You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“There is a great new work before us, which is to replace with true knowledge the ignorance that has destroyed human minds. We will construct unity in a world [which] has been brutally torn apart by false divisions of race, religion, gender, nationality, and age. We will heal with unconditional love those souls whose hearts have been disfigured by hatred and loneliness.”
― Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

“In short, millennials have been dealt a bad hand in their career, social, and romantic lives—some even in their family. In the karma points of the world, millennials are of the lowest caste so far. As a result, they are treated with disdain, contempt, and disrespect. Most of the time, they don’t fight back, usually in danger of losing their financial stability.”
― Cate East, Generational Astrology: How Astrology Can Crack the Millennial Code

“Amazed Generation! Found Generation!
Diamond Generation! Brainwashed
Generation! Amnesiac
T.V. Bureaucracy Voidoids!
New Wave Punk Generation!
Neutron Bomb blast Babies!
Apocalypse Spermatozoa!
Did you grow up imbibing
Microchip sex waters?
Will you marry me in the
next Millennium?
Must I wait for the Great Year?

- Listening to Susan Sontag”
― Allen Ginsberg, Wait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems

“In order to live on this Earth together in harmony, humanity must make certain compromises to relate to each other. Everyone must make the necessary adaptations at some point in their lives—as children, they must adapt to their guardians; as adults, to their authorities and governments; and as elderly persons, to their caretakers. Those at the top now may not be there one day, and those at the bottom now could eventually rise to the top. Life is a cycle.”
― Cate East, Generational Astrology: How Astrology Can Crack the Millennial Code

“Granny flats are misnamed. They were once intended for older relatives, so they can live near their adult children and grandchildren. Hence the appellation. Down in the lowlands of Boomertown, there are many such little residences. But they’re not for grannies.

Instead, the buildings should be called ‘children and grandchildren emergency shelters’ because that’s what they’ve become. Whole families cram themselves into a few dozen square metres of space and meanwhile, the grandparents stay in the big main house, rattling around their many empty rooms like rubber balls in a vast squash court.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“After decades of shaping of the world, the Boomers are finally facing their end. It’s something we all must deal with one day. But when you’ve experienced power your whole life, the end of one’s life is the ultimate moment of being powerless in the face of something you can’t change.
And they hate the very thought of it.”
― I.M. Millennial

“Many of my parents’ friends own more than one house, sometimes so many that whole dwellings sit unused and empty for years. And so it’s an odd contradiction that they often seem to get stuck on the most minute details when it comes to renovations. My hypothesis is that this is a way to feel the thrill of ownership come to life again. It’s polishing the already gilded lily.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“I’ve found environmentalism isn’t popular with many Boomers unless it gives them good social value; a round of applause for recycling or for purchasing themselves the latest state-of-the-art electric car. They were born amid one of the largest eras of value-by-resource-extraction, and they’re just not wired to understand scarcity.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“The house is in moderate condition, but when we do the usual dance of exploring the price range, the agent clarifies that the owner has high expectations.
The owner interjects and I hear the full story from the man himself. ‘My house has been valued at a million,’ he says with a grin. ‘Though I’ve been told it might be worth more than that. Would you believe it only cost me a year’s income back in the eighties? Had three children and never had to worry about money or a place to live. And now the value of it just keeps going up! It’s unbelievable what people have to pay for houses these days. Never would have imagined it.’ He cackles at this, as if it’s the funniest thing in the world.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“But that’s what it’s like being a Millennial in a Boomer’s world. There’s always someone else pulling the strings.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“Being back in Boomertown has exposed us to an unforeseen avenue of questions from my parents’ Boomer friends.
In particular, why do Bailey and I only have one child? Also, when will we have more children? How does my daughter feel about being an only child? Do I know only children are very sad and lonely? And that only children end up spoiled, crazy and socially maladaptive?”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“Boomers with any property at all have made fortunes selling their lawns, garages, driveways and spare plots to developers who are desperate to capitalise on the property boom and the younger generations desperate for somewhere to live.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“Boomer parents can have strange blind spots; they always seem ready to blame anyone but themselves or their children. I think this happens because they see their children as an extension of themselves. If they themselves are perfect, then so must their children be.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“I’d come to Boomertown to find a sanctuary. But I hadn’t realised that in doing so I’d stepped into a trap. I hadn’t lived with my parents for years and I’m realising I’d underestimated just how much they were interested in again being active in guiding my life.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“Do all Boomers think Millennials are riven with anxiety? Maybe we are. But maybe we’re justified in feeling that way about a lot of things. The world’s in a pretty sorry state.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“I’ve seen statistics that Boomers drink a great deal more than their Millennial children and that Millennial alcohol use is declining year on year. It could be because Millennials have less disposable income. Or it could be that we need all our wits about us to navigate life’s many challenges.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“Land is expensive,’ my mother says with a shrug. ‘We built most of our first house ourselves from a kit set. You should do the same. Or you could live in a caravan for a while.’
Like most people our age, we could live in a caravan for several years and still not afford to buy land in a location near where we could find work. And even if we were to buy land, new building regulations and ever stricter environmental laws make it near impossible for anyone to build a house themselves, let alone live in a caravan while doing so.
I know someone who tried living in a tiny home on her own land and lasted three months before the Boomer neighbours on each side of her property reported her to the council. She received a fine and was evicted from her own patch.
Whatever property ladder existed before has been long ago pulled up by the Boomers and the Trailers who trail behind them.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“Bailey, Ace and I continue to look for a place to live, and, it would seem, so is everyone else. In fact, word around Eden Perch is that a prosperous millennial woman from Boomer City has expressed interest in the scrubby lot that sits behind my parents’ home. According to my mother’s contact, the woman is not only interested in purchasing the land but also in building. With this revelation, the whole suburb is in an uproar. None of the other residents of Eden Perch want to buy the plot, but they don’t want anyone else to have it either. And now that someone else has shown interest, every objection comes crawling up to meet the challenge.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“I have become used to the presumption that our place in line is only a suggestion to anyone of the Boomer persuasion. I try not to take it to heart.”
― I.M. Millennialial

“It’s especially galling to be the Millennial who’s expected to pay over decades of hard-won life savings and anything the bank will lend, for the privilege of buying a structure in need of a full renovation or rebuild. That is assuming, of course, that the local development authority agrees to take part in the pantomime.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“I’m told I should smoke more weed, which I don’t like, or else “do something nice for yourself,” which I like so much that I do it every day; the issue is possibly that I do too many nice things for myself and have become a decadent millennial with no values or principles except expertly curated consumption.”
― Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays

“Having Nostalgia is romantic. It's the ability to Never forget something you love”
― Erin La Rosa, The Backtrack

“The guy next to him has dark brown hair down to his chin and striking blue eyes, like a real-life Shawn Hunter.”
― Elise Bryant , It's Elementary

“Her generation’s failure was not of comprehension but of compassion, of splitting the indifference; its juvenile taste for making a mess; its indignant reluctance to clean it up; its limitless capacity for giving itself a break; its tendency to understand its privilege as vindication. And they weren’t even happy.”
― Tony Tulathimutte, Private Citizens

“One of my younger friends here in Los Angeles told me, “They call us a lost generation, but we’re not stupid. The stock market exists for accredited investors to cash out. We’re not in that club, so we created our own. Go Bitcoin!”
― Victoria Silchenko, Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain

“Observamos, nos últimos anos, a chegada de moças e rapazes em busca de ajuda, sentindo-se aquém e à margem de um mercado de trabalho fechado, rigoroso e mesmo implacável. Poucas épocas históricas trouxeram tantas dificuldades de ingresso à idade adulta como a nossa.
Ao analisar questões trazidas por esse grupo em suas novas especificidades, percebemos em comum não apenas uma auto-avaliação bastante depreciativa como uma condição subjetiva diferente daquela do luto. Não se tratava, então, de recuperar um processo interrompido ou de ajudar a elaborar uma perda. Estávamos diante de um quadro de desesperança diante do amanhã e de apequenamento diante da vida, uma relutância em fazer escolhas e seguir adiante. Um grupo amedrontado, insatisfeito, refugiando-se no tédio, trazendo em seu repertório de queixas o sentimento de profunda insuficiência.
O sociólogo francês Alain Ehrenberg (1998), que desenvolveu ampla pesquisa no sentido de desenhar os contornos do indivíduo na contemporaneidade, dedica-se, no terceiro volume de sua trilogia, a pesquisar as depressões, interrogando como ela se impôs como a forma de sofrimento predominante e em que medida esse fenômeno seria revelador das mutações da individualidade ao fim do século XX. Referindo-se à cultura francesa, o autor traça um paralelo entre o crescimento das depressões e a ascensão de valores ligados à competitividade econômica e à competição esportiva. Assim, ter-se-ia difundido a idéia de um indivíduo-trajetória em busca da conquista de sua identidade social. Observa ainda que há, nos estados depressivos contemporâneos, um predomínio dos sentimentos de insuficiência, paralelamente ao esvaziamento da dimensão do conflito. A presença do conflito, nos quadros neuróticos, como ressaltamos, contribuía para que o sujeito se mantivesse em movimento. Nas depressões, contudo, o apagamento do conflito, o sentimento de fragilidade, instabilidade e precariedade diante da vida, deixam o sujeito capturado pela própria insuficiência. Além disso, segundo Ehrenberg, a vergonha substitui a culpa. O depressivo mergulha numa lógica na qual domina o sentimento de inferioridade, daí a vergonha que, por sua vez, aponta para a origem narcísica do distúrbio. E o narcisismo, ressalta o autor, não corresponde ao amor de si e, sim, ao aprisionamento a uma imagem ideal, inatingível, em face da qual o sujeito se sente impotente. De forma semelhante encontramos, em nossa prática clínica, sujeitos envergonhados diante de uma condição de suposta inferioridade física e/ou intelectual totalmente imaginária, mas, apegados a ela, refugiam-se em casa, por vezes em seus quartos, escondendo-se dos demais, recusando-se a questionar o próprio desejo.”
― Sandra Edler, Luto e Melancolia - À sombra do espetáculo

“It’s bizarre and truly sad how connected yet disconnected this generation is.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“But her generation was entering a future that had very little to offer.”
― Michelle Frances, The Girlfriend