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“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”
― Albert Einstein

“As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you’re a kid again, poking around in your parentsâ€� closet, only this time there’s no chance of getting in trouble, so you don’t have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.”
― Roz Chast

“The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.”
― Anthony Liccione

“You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“Why is it that looking through someone's things is always somehow so sad and also endearing, as if the deep fragility of their person becomes exposed in their absence, through their belongings?”
― Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

“Before belonging to the world, you should belong to yourself, as only those who are not happy with their own existence search for it outside.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Either I shall find it, or I shall not find it. I examine my note-case. I look in all my pockets. These are the things that forever interrupt the process upon which I am eternally engaged of finding some perfect phrase that fits this moment exactly.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own.”
― Osman Doluca

“While they have not got their aims, their anxiety is how to get them. When they have got them, their anxiety is lest they should lose them.”
― Confucius, The Complete Confucius

“The belongings people accumulate throughout their lives will always own them. People seem to think if they had more they’d be happier or freer, but their possessions only chain them to the earth.”
― Sarah Noffke, Awoken

“And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and ran back to his car packing away. After making two trips in and out, he waited in the car for his family to come out, in fear they darted through the darkness and pelting cold rain. When everything calmed down, and the house was intact and safe, he returned putting everything back in its place, had the kids go to bed, told his wife he loves her and turned off the light.”
― Anthony Liccione

“In our overcrowded homes today, most possessions are not truly “belongings.â€� They are only distracting us from the things that do belong.”
― Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

“People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“People come in my house and say, “I like this.â€� I say, “Do you want it?â€� Isn’t that the Christian thing to do?”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

“What was worth saving? Not as much as you’d anticipated, once you got into the spirit of paperlessness. Pile up those mine carts with fool’s gold. The thing that’s worth keeping is the thing you do next.”
― Nick Paumgarten

“Low self-esteem is no better home to take a refuge. It does not keep you comforted from any danger; it keeps you confined away from your real belongings!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Three belongings impoverish: Love, hope and fake friendships.”
― Tiziri Wuming

“There are ways to make room for more books and still have room to live.”
― Carla Hayden

“Family isn’t just a social construct, you know darling, it is formed in the heart. It’s instinctive, this feeling of belonging to someone whose absence keeps you incomplete. . .”
― Franciska Soares, They Whisper in my Blood

“Zoey had later found a few of her mother's things mistakingly tangled in her own---a pair of lavender-colored leather gloves, a twisted and knotted gold bracelet, and a tube of saucy red lipstick, the color of which was called Bye Bye Birdie.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds: A Novel

“You look just as I hoped you would.'

From the cobwebs of my memory, I recalled similar words Tamlin had once whispered in my ear. 'If this necessary?' I said, gesturing to the paint and clothing.

'Of course,' he said coolly. 'How else would I know if anyone touches you?'

He approached, and I braced myself as he ran a finger along my shoulder, smearing the paint. As soon as his finger left my skin, the paint fixed itself, returning the design to its original form. 'The dress itself won't mar it, and neither will your movements,' he said, his face close to mine. His teeth were far too near to my throat. 'And I'll remember precisely where my hands have been. But if anyone else touches you- let's say a certain High Lord who enjoys springtime- I'll know.' He flicked my nose. 'And, Feyre,' he added, his voice a caressing murmur, 'I don't like my belongings tampered with.'

Ice wrapped around my stomach. He owned me for a week every month. Apparently, he thought that extended to the rest of my life, too.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“When she was a child, she had inherited a ratty canvas tent which her mother had allowed her to drag down from the attic and sit inside. The thrill of a pretended journey had been enough to entertain her for days at time, zipped up with her books and a beakerful of cramberry juice, imagining strange shadows dancing on the fabric walls. You liked it because you liked four walls around you, her mother told her later, you liked to have things where you could see them - your little books and toys and pencils - to zip them up with you and keep them close.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

“[A]nger in its pure state is the measure of the way we are implicated in the world and made vulnerable through love in all its specifics: a daughter, a house, a family, an enterprise, a land or a colleague.”
― David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

“My future aspirations involve living under bridges with my belongings in a shopping cart.”
― Steven Magee

“He had left her among his belongings as if she was one too.”
― Kayla Krantz, Reanimate at Dawn

“My trouble is
I always try to save
everything

old clocks and calendars
expired words buried
in open graves

But hoarded grains of sand
keep shifting as rivers
redefine boundaries and seasons”
― Naomi Long Madgett, Exits and Entrances

“Now
the house is a museum of everything

she can't let go”
― Natasha Trethewey, Monument: Poems New and Selected

“Water damaged belongings were a feature of the hurricane Ian disaster in Florida.”
― Steven Magee

“Hurricane Ian’s flooding trashed the interiors and belongings of many homes.”
― Steven Magee

“Then there had been the slowdown; an accumulation, as in sluggish rivers. Things ended up in this house that hadn't been needed in their city life but that they couldn't simply throw out. Layers of sediment, over thirty years of it, had sifted in during springs and summers and falls and springs and summers, and now Nell must dig down through these layers, excavate them, as if the house has been buried under the ash from a volcanic eruption.”
― Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories