Quotes About Materialistic Possessions

#1. The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and stronger. And now, it was the sum total of what she was.

Sue Fortin

#2. I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

Sheryl Crow

#3. If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.

Vincente Minnelli

#4. Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can't speak for itself, it's not truth.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. it sometimes happened that you would, in the middle of your exertions, be discouraged by the absurdity of what you were in the process of doing: athletic exertion was vanity. You engaged in it less for the joy of the act than in order to exhaust yourself.

Edouard Leve

#6. it is good to have wealth. It is great to leave in comfort. It is awesome to obtain possessions but, don't be too eager for material possessions for the same material possessions that bring joy are the same possessions that bring sorrow and pain and also leave a big had I know on our minds

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. We lose peace of mind when we indulge in the materialistic things. We see our reflections in these possessions and properties and attach ourselves to the point of becoming saddened by them. These possessions gradually become our identity and these identities start disturbing us with time.

Ryan Foret

#8. Catey, happiness doesn't just happen to us, especially when we've been living without it for so long. Happiness is a choice we make every single day. We wake up and decide that no matter what happens we will find a way to obtain the very thing our heart needs to flourish.

Lisa N. Paul

#9. The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

Caskie Stinnett

#10. He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.

James Rozoff

#11. Remember to never answer a phone during sex, even if you hilariously answer with 'I can't talk now, I'm going into a tunnel'.

Jimmy Carr

#12. If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false

Tony Benn

#13. Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Peace Pilgrim

#14. While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really ... motivated by psychological disturbance.

Edie Sedgwick

#15. Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

Joan Didion