Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote

We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living; and with that we are satisfied. When there is a disruption, a breaking away of that, then there is sorrow, because you suddenly discover yourself as you are-an empty shell, without much meaning.

The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness (ed. 1991)