Preston Sturges Quotes

Let's be honest: material comes and goes.

As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.

No man can lose what he never had.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing.

If you acquire things, you have to let them go.

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

It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.

Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Time takes all and gives all.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.

I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose... you lose to gain.

In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

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.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.