Don DeLillo Quotes

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

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

I don't believe there is any point in holding on to too many things in life.

I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it.

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!

I like getting rid of things. I really do.

I don't like possessions.

I don't hoard things and I don't cling to memories.

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

You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.

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

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.

You get to a point in life where it suddenly occurs to you that you don't need all the things you once thought you did--that it's really, well, convoluted. My life feels overblown sometimes, and I don't want it to be. I want it to be streamlined. So I'm living a much more unscripted life now than I have in a long time.

Everything we need is already there. The challenge is letting go of all our stuff in the way.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

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

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.

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

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!