Quotes About Materialism

As Lily Cavenaugh says in The Talisman (and it was Peter Straub's line, not mine), You can never be too thin or too rich. And if you don't believe it, you were never really fat or really poor.

El dinero compra muchas cosas, pero no puede parar el rayo.

One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, "How much did he leave?" His friend responded, "He left it all.

Often, people with a Scarcity Mentality harbor secret hopes that others might suffer misfortune—not terrible misfortune, but acceptable misfortune that would keep them "in their place." They're always comparing, always competing. They give their energies to possessing things or other people in order to increase their sense of worth.

Perhaps my daughter needed the experience of possessing the things before she could give them. (In fact, unless I possess something, can I ever really give it?)

Al morir un amigo común, un hombre le preguntó a otro: «¿Cuánto dejó?». La respuesta fue: «¡Lo dejó todo!».

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half cartons of milk in the fridge to go sour; that everyday functional things will outlive us and prove that we weren't ready to go; that we weren't smart or knowing or heroic; that we were just animals whose animal bodies stopped working without any sort of schedule or any consent from us.

Happiness becomes untethered to income, because once we can meet our basic needs, the lure of all the stuff it took to meet them, begins to lose its luster. Once extrinsic drivers start to fade, intrinsic drivers take over.

No andéis preocupados por vuestra vida, qué comeréis, ni por vuestro cuerpo, con qué os vestiréis…».

We have been spiritually impoverished, they say, by the rise of individualism, materialism, consumerism, and decadent wealth, and by the erosion of traditional communities with their hearty social bonds and their sense of meaning and purpose bestowed by religion.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It's also the root of a lot of bad art.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

The best things in life are gifts from the One who steadfastly loves us. But an important question to ask ourselves is this: are we in love with God or just His stuff?

Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?