Albert Camus Quotes

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

I'm always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

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!

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.

The older you get and the wealthier you get, the more complicated life becomes. That's why I have as few material assets as possible. Every material thing you have is more hassle.

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

I have no use for eight houses, 88 cars and 500 suits. I can't eat but one steak at a time. I don't want but one woman. It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

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

I am not a fan of having too much gear.

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.

Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!

The more you own, the more it owns you.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.