Quotes About Clutter

Winter is simple no clutter, no color a blanket of snow reminds us to rest

The difficulty is believing what we are told, and my grandmother said that a good prayer depends on the audience. It's all in the clutter of words, this eloquence, the lives before and after transformed into fingerprints, notes of music, the accessories of forgotten civilizations.

I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck. I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and underlinings they are irreplaceable; but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish. ~ Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Child.

It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.

Easy to get loaded down with stuff—and stuff often holds you back from making important decisions.

chicken remains, wads of paper towels, empty soup cans, lunch-meat wrappers, and God knows what else.

It can make us stronger, more compassionate, more understanding—more like Jesus—if we allow it to. And the more clutter we get rid of in our life here—the more we will be able to enjoy heaven—when we get there. So, pain can have a purpose.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

It's not unusual for my room to be stacked with newspapers gathered during a trip.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

There's nothing worse than a sterile house.

I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.

Being packed all the time, even when not in use, must feel something like going to bed on an empty stomach.

There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all the stuff we already have, from packed closets that need organizers to storage spaces to maintenance costs, etc. Lots of people are reevaluating whether or not they need giant garages full of stuff and finding that they don't.

The older I get, the less I obsess about material stuff. In fact, stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!

I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.

A big gloomy space was piled with bags, boxes, suitcases, parcels, umbrellas. There were a few shelves but no apparent order. Some of the bags seemed to have been left where they had been dropped. It was the sort of place horror-film directors dream of, or playwrights of the absurd, a place of the soul, in limbo.

Malgastamos la vida con detalles… Simplifica, simplifica… Un hombre es rico en proporción a la cantidad de cosas de las que puede prescindir.

Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify…. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." —Henry David Thoreau, Walden

You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!

I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.

Google came of age when search was inefficient and cluttered, and made it simple and easy to find what you wanted online.

Children bring chaos and clutter and an infinite potential for the future

Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.