Material Excess Quotes

#1. At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.

Jon Krakauer

#2. I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.

Jon Krakauer

#3. Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman.

Samuel R. Delany

#4. In quantum mechanics no object has a definite position, except when colliding headlong with something else.

Carlo Rovelli

#5. I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

Roberto Unger

#6. Giving back to my community is great, but I must never forget to give back to God in the solitude of prayer.

Laura Domino

#7. Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life
its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness
conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.

Susan Sontag

#8. He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#9. One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

James Payn

#10. We should live each and every day with the certainty that this armor will protect us from danger, and then we will no longer be bound to the duality of existence. We have to find a middle path, where there is neither joy nor suffering, only profound peace.

Paulo Coelho

#11. Humanity is still much more a means than an end. It is the type: the human
race is merely the test material, the vast excess of failure, a debris field.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.

Nick Hanauer

#13. The hole in the shoulder of his T shirt was not a cute hole. The excess material in the seat of his seersucker shorts, the excess length of the shorts themselves, were not cute excesses.

J.D. Salinger

#14. Just don't be afraid to be who you are and you will be successful.

Auliq Ice

#15. Love is the most powerful catalyst. It can change a heart and the world.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Besides being good for our body, running helps us to focus and throw away negative energy.

Joe Taslim

#18. In alien lands I keep the body
Of ancient native rites and things:
I gladly free a little birdie
At celebration of the spring.
I'm now free for consolation,
And thankful to almighty Lord:
At least, to one of his creations
I've given freedom in this world!

Alexander Pushkin

#19. I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

Zaha Hadid

#20. In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

Charles Dickens

#21. One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North
personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

Marshall McLuhan

#22. Then he threw the bottle through the doorway of the kitchen. It flew into the living room and smashed against the wall.

Kristen Ashley