424 Quotes About Luxury

Except for our pompous means of comfort, human condition is not much different from animal condition - we are tormented each day with animal like anxieties, insecurities and fears, and each torment makes us believe that perhaps having more comfort will change our condition, but it never does, rather, it only shoves us deeper into the abyss of psychological darkness.

The seductions of power, and all the wealth, honor, and luxury it gives, seem a sufficient aim for men's efforts only so long as they are unattained. Directly a man reaches them he sees all their vanity, and they gradually lose all their power of attraction. They are like clouds which have form and beauty only from the distance; directly one ascends into them, all their splendor vanishes.

You can decide that wealth and renown are worthless when you have them.

As you get older, you'll realise that a £250 watch and a £25 watch both tell the same time.A Michael Kors wallet and a Primark wallet hold the same amount of money.A £500,000 and a £100,000 house host the same loneliness.True happiness is not found in materialistic things.

Only now that he had great swathes of time could he begin to have hobbies. This was why art was such an incalculable luxury: it sent out a message saying, "I have time to subcontract all the menial, dull chores out to others; I waste hours in idle contemplation of a piece of cloth covered in spots; I am an art lover; I am time-rich. I can mooch about in a sea of pickled sharks.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

People are striving for authenticity in an inauthentic world. That’s why sensuality is now more crucial than ever.

Sensuality is an expression of modern luxury.

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.