Ezra Miller Quotes

I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness.

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.

I know people who are wealthy and they're miserable.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

I don't like mansions. They depress me. In fact, I even feel sorry for a rich husband and wife living in a forty-room mansion. They're obviously searching for something they don't have, such as happiness or the respect of others.

I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.

The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

Hollywood is high school with money.

But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy.