Excessive Attachment Quotes

Even our pets can become idols.

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

I have a hoarding problem because my mom is from a third-world country. And she taught me that you can never throw away anything because you never know when a dictator is going to overtake the country and snatch all of your wealth.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.