Quotes About Materialism

Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.No one goes away and then comes back.

Stuffocation: being overwhelmed by the stuff one has bought or accumulated.

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.

The care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches.

Make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Thy money perish with thee.

I'm a material girl - want to see my fabric collection?

I shop like a bull - I charge everything!

Set not thy heart upon thy goods; and say not, I have enough for my life.

As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys.

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

Modern society has generally 'lost the plot'. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

You want the little things that society has falsely taught you are essential for happiness. You want that.

When you see this you will understand how people attempt to gain the world and, in the process, lose their soul.

Take a look at the society we live in. It is rotten to the core, infected with attachments. What is an attachment? An attachment is an emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

Take a look at the people around you. Is there a single person among them who hasn't become addicted to those worldly feelings? Is there a single person who is not controlled by them, hungering for them, spending every minute of their waking life consciously or unconsciously seeking them? When you see this, you will understand how people attempt to gain the world and, in the process, lose their soul. For they live empty, soulless lives.