Quotes About Materialism

You can't get sentimental about houses. Or bodies. They're just, I don't know, the Tupperware of the soul.

A rich man, it is said, is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

The relationship between money and the possession of things had disappointed her.

Era dunque, malgrado le sue qualità, un uomo frivolo, superficiale, un organismo animale che grondava sudori e fluidi e si lasciava alle spalle, come il residuo di un piacere distratto, materia viva concepita, nutrita, formata dentro ventri femminili.

If nothing could save us, not money, not a male body, and not even studying, we might as well destroy everything immediately.

what was "Cinderella," if not an allegory for the fundamental unhappiness of shoe shopping?—

the more secular, materialistic, and compulsively extraverted our civilization became, the greater the unhappiness, 'senselessness and aimlessness' of our lives.

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money. I have never walked there with a companion without talking of it.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.

A guy or gal who wants to drive, fly and enjoy life materially high often or all the time can make anyone cry even friends or family members nearby to take out own happiness or joy.

A material mind person gets naturally and proportionately attracted towards artificial public so-called negative or toxic people.

A mind who is materialistic by nature can't ever find own heart in the work, so s/he may appear effective only for the time being but could never truly be a productive person or a creative soul.

A netizen speaks normally about one's life's first priority or preference through the profile picture; it's often the person seen therein, but it could also be the product on which s/he lays the hand on or seen as an inset in this selfish and materialistic world.

A person who has got the wealth more than own worth in life spends every extra money on bogus or useless things and hangs out with all worthless or unscrupulous people.

A person who has very narrow views of life gives always the importance to the people only through their material assets, clothes and shoes.

A person who is an actual factual or a habitual positive looks often an odd or eccentric guy in a material world full of artificial or negative people.

A person who is an indolent or a peasant can never lead the intelligent or smart people, but only sows seed of sycophancy weed within the organization to merely feed on own materialistic need and fulfill the greed of a few others at the topmost position and everyone can read clearly that s/he does never heed of the good deed of sincere and hard workers.

A person who is visually blind can make use of own other senses to identity the differences between the trustworthy and unworthy people; but one who has a materialistic mind can't distinctively find the true character of others and most often mistakes his foes for his friends only.

A person whose life's objective is driven by the desire to only acquire and enjoy material objects is actually negative to the people.

A person's mind full of greed grows only weed and that too with a high speed even if the brainy people sow their creativity seed into his/her materialistic head.

A sage since old days in every generation is always considered a mad person by the foolish people who have had either an empty or a materialistic head over their shoulders in this selfish world.

A seeker of the material pleasure can never be a true motivational speaker, but only demotivator eventually for s/he can never uplift the morale of the spectators who are economically weaker.