Quotes About Possessions

When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

This was the crazy thing about wealth: You only had it if you didn't use it, but if you didn't use it, there was no value in having it.

I have terrible urges, Mr. Kapasi, to throw things away. One day I had the urge to throw everything I own out the window, the television, the children, everything. Don't you think it's unhealthy?

With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.

I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.

The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

Take everything that's yours with you, don't save any -- it won't be needed later.

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

Waste lies not in the number of possessions but in the failure to enjoy them.

To be frugal means to have a high joy-to-stuff ratio. If you get one unit of joy for each material possession, that's frugal. But if you need ten possessions to even begin registering on the joy meter, you're missing the point of being alive.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

I have a car but it's not important.

The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.

Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.

I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in there, too - you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It's awesome. It's the ultimate fantasy.

I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.

I've never bought a sports car.

Yes, the irreplaceables, the things you never use--those are what really matters. I've got a damask table-cloth, you know, and napkins to match for 24 people. I've heard it said that a woman's possessions are part of herself. If she loses her things, her personality undergoes a change

I can admire, but I no longer covet. Books of course are another matter; books are not acquisitions, they are necessities.