Eddie Vedder Quotes

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

My parents didn't have any money.

As a young single mum struggling to get by, I didn't get to go to university, but that level of debt would have been unimaginable.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

My parents worked hard, sometimes two jobs, to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

Work does have some value and some dignity, but I don't think working 14 hours and not being able to pay your bills, or working two jobs and not being able - there's nothing inherently dignified about that.

The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.

Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

I know people's problems: the problems of those who work hard, who must slave away. The couples who have two incomes but who can nevertheless barely cover their rent. The people who get stuck in traffic on their way to work. The people who have to wait in vain for a train to come just as they are supposed to be picking up their children from daycare. I can say with a clear conscience to those people: I understand your problems. And I will do all I can to decrease them.

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.

A light purse is a heavy curse.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor