Quotes About Materialism

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

Everything I own can fit in two suitcases and a foot locker.

What I can't fit into my suitcase is probably something I don't need.

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.

I realised I owned eight pink suits, which I did not need.

Drew is a shopaholic. He must have 400 suits and 180 pairs of shoes. I have three pairs of jeans, and that's it. I shop in his closet and take anything I want.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

I bought three cars in one day. For a high six-figure sum, I got a Lamborghini, a Hummer, and a Cadillac Oldtimer.

The stock market is for people who live in Manhattan and summer in the Hamptons, for people who can afford fancy cars - a Mercedes, say.

It is true that there comes a time when I do literally dream about McDonald's. I dream of supermarkets and drug stores, potato chips and the Sunday morning paper.

I don't spend a bunch of money on jewelry or sunglasses, because I lose them a lot.

I am very fond of shoes and sunglasses. But the most expensive thing I have bought is a house for my family.

It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

I'm just - like, I'm just very over the whole superficial life and world we live in.

L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.

I have tried the fancy, superficial life in my past, but I quickly learned that diamonds are not my best friend.

Is it possible that despite our inventions and progress, despite our culture, religion and knowledge of the world, we have remained on the surface of life? Is it possible that even that surface, which might still have been something, has been covered with unbelievably boring material, leaving it looking like drawing-room furniture in the summer holidays.

Does the ore feel trapped in coins and gears? does it feel homesick for earth?

Greed, we know, is at play in today's India. The 'me first' outlook is rampant.

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property, out of new respect for his nature.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.