Quotes About Excess

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

As handbags get ever more absurdly large, so they need to carry more stuff to validate the expense of this huge trunk with chains, buckles and padlocks on.

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

Gluttony? I could eat and eat and eat and eat and eat. I'd love to pig out on gluten. I mean, I'm allergic to gluten, but I really want to do that. I want to sit in bed one day and just pig out.

I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

Room service is great if you want to pay $500 for a club sandwich.

I just feel like, if I drink, I want to drink a case of beer and not two beers. Two beers doesn't do anything for me.

I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

Dope and diamonds, dope and diamonds, that's all that I want

Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.

The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.

Of course, he was too busy spilling an endless flood of seed into a barely sensate and in no way resisting Captain Sater down in his cabin, and this, as all well know, is the pinnacle of all human virtue, glory and exaltation.

toxic addictiveness... news feed and other "infinite scrolls" the worst offenders..

We [Americans] became a nation of java junkies, wired from dawn to dusk intent on running faster, getting richer, dancing harder, playing longer and getting higher than anybody else.

Greed, she thought, he was so greedy, but stupid too.

Girls sprawled on the floor and across the couches. A sickly scent of plundered fruit flesh filled the humid air. Wine had been drink and spilled; goblets stood upon the table and lay upon the floor. Young faces were flushed with pleasure and a vicarious excitement. Gowns were rumpled and stained, slippers cast off. The fire burned loudly and fiercely. Wood cracked in the flames. There was little other light, for the candles had burned nearly all away.