Quotes About Materialism

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.

Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day.

Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to take your life, and those things we do gain can never be taken to our grave.

The wealth of some people is here on earth. The wealth of other people is somewhere afar from the earth. Whatever the wealth may be, we must think of a wealth that is distinctive

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.

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

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale?

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.