Vincent Kartheiser Quotes

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

I am totally unattached to material items.

I live a very simple life.

The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.

Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

How many things I can do without!

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

I just want pieces of the world.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

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!

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I've written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did.

I have X'd myself from your world.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

I'm not designed to interact with society.