Quotes About Materialism

That awkward moment when you see a 10 year old child with a better phone than yours.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

Although, we know that our earthly journey will end soon, we continue chasing millions which we finally have to leave behind.

I realized that money can't take the pain when my heart cries. Wealth is not everything in life

Money is the closest to everything, but also what distances us from many things.

Don't try to own anything in Life as nothing belongs to you but it's given to you in trust

Treasures of life lie in the little joys of life, not in those materialistic earnings of yours that you slogged so hard for.

We tend to care about the things more which we don't have and care less about the things we already have. This leads to dissatisfaction with present state of life.

A poor man experiences life more than a rich man lifestyle.

Sometimes spiritual blessings are much more important than most material goals we pursue in life.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

I wish everyone could get rich and famous and everything they ever dreamed of so they can see thats not the answer.

Yes, money cannot buy happiness. But it can pay for a very good imitation of it. And most people would not know the difference.

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing.

Don't value the things in this world too much and never let those things cause you to be away from GOD. Let GOD always be the focus of our life.

Money can buy a house, but not a home. It can buy a bed, but not sleep. It can buy a clock, but not time. It can buy a book, but not knowledge. Money can earn a position, but not respect. It can buy blood, but not health, so you see, money is not everything in life.

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.

Empirically speaking, we are made from star stuff. Why aren't we talking more about that? Materials never leave this world. They just keep recycling, recombining. That's what you kept telling me when we met--that in a real, material sense, what is made from where . I didn't have a clue what you were talking about, but I could see you burned for it. I wanted to be near that burning. I still don't understand, but at least now my fingers ride the lip.

Esme looks up, sees the watch in Iris's outstretched hand and shakes her head. She holds up the blue check material and Iris sees that it is a dress, a woollen dress, that it's crumpled and two of the buttons are missing, torn out from the fabric. Esme is shaking it, as if something might be caught in its folds, then casts it aside.

Money just draws flies.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."