Varg Vikernes Quotes

I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.

If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape your life in a way where, when you get to be sixty, you'll succeed. You'll be happy about your life.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

You want the people to know, but you don't really want the things behind it. I have everything I ever wanted. I never wanted a big house. I never wanted a Ferrari. I mean, as I proceeded with the music, I started liking Ferraris...

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

I don't really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way.

Our economy is based upon people wanting more; their happiness on wanting less.

When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.

Buddha says: Life should be simple, not complex. Life should be based on needs, not on desires. Needs are perfectly okay: you need food, you need clothes, you need a shelter, you need love, you need relationship. Perfectly good, nothing wrong in it. Needs can be fulfilled; desires are basically unfulfillable. Desires create complexity. They create complexity because they can never be fulfilled. You go on and on working hard for them, and they remain unfulfilled, and you remain empty.