Deprivation Quotes

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb. If the gods would tax ecstasy, then I shall pay; however, I shall protest their taxes at each opportunity, and if Woden or Shiva or Buddha or that Christian fellow--what's his name?--cannot respect that, then I'll accept their wrath. At least I will have tasted the banquet that they have spread before me on this rich, round planet, rather than recoiling from it like a toothless bunny. I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to tempt us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“Can’t tell what was liked
and where; but
something was just liked unwittingly.”
― Suman Pokhrel, शून्य मुटुको धड्कनभित्र) [Shoonya Mutuku Dhadkanbhitra]

“How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live.”
― P. Sainath

“The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even living in the traditional air, but breathing into their space helmets a scientific mixture of synthetic gases (and polluted at that) are the true pioneers. Their circuitry seems to include no atavistic domestic sentiment, they have suffered empathectomy, their computers hum no ghostly feedback of Home, Sweet Home. How marvelously free they are! How unutterably deprived!”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

“A gilded cage is still a cage”
― Supreme Court

“Every example throughout the history of humanity shows that only deprivation and struggle create a human life worthy of the name”
― Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

“This is a reactionary rage, often fueled by a sense of deprivation and a belief the world owes something to the daughter who lost her mother too young. But underneath it is usually a deep anger toward the mother herself.”
― Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

“Employment deprives you of innovations”
― Sunday Adelaja

“This is one of the great human mysteries: why do works of art about bad things such as loss and deprivation make us feel good?”
― Robert Pinsky, The Handbook of Heartbreak: 101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow

“There's no hope for these boys and girls, the headmaster soberly explained in the interview. This is not education, this is storage. Maybe Sonja (disabled) understood how it felt to be described as such. The vacant position only attracted one applicant, and she go thtose boys and girls to read Shakespeare.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Employment deprives you of purpose”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Do not deprive the world the gift of your products.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.”
― Steven Magee

“The sequestering of the family in the big house feels to those within the walls like a strange curtailment of their liberty. To those in the village it is no great novelty. For them, even before the wall’s building was complete, to stray about the park, without express permission, was to risk having a leg bitten off by a mantrap. Prisoners lament their confinement. Sometimes to be at large is an equal deprivation”
― Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Peculiar Ground

“Jealousy holds alarm of danger and fear; whereas, envy displays the feeling of desire and deprivation.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“At the time of last sentence, you will realize that disappointment with deprivation is so whopping.”
― Prof.Salam Al Shereida

“These days of internment are long. I do miss the falling blossoms, the manifold seasons of life, the thousand glances from the grand seductress – the world. But now all is uncertain.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, Game of Big Numbers

“Health and safety is challenging in an environment where the workers are suffering from oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and the side effects of company supplied drugs and gas.”
― Steven Magee

“It is important to remember when interacting with astronomers that you are dealing with people that are commonly showing the long term adverse effects of sleep deprivation and High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).”
― Steven Magee

“My research is indicating that sleep deprivation and unnatural electromagnetic radiation exposures can trigger the human mating cycle.”
― Steven Magee

“Masturbation is a function of sleep deprivation, electromagnetic exposures, hormones and ingested stimulants.”
― Steven Magee

“why is she perfect in absolutely every way? it seems unlikely that the prettiest, cleverest, sarcastic and did I mention the most beautiful girl in all the lands has no idea?
well Derek shes the main character.
ahhh.”
― sleep deprived me

“Was it ghastly?"

I remembered the sunlit summer of 1940, the crowds rushing from Paris, as from a fire, to join the snake-like lines of mattress-topped cars that drove slow, slower and slowest of all just before their closely packed passengers scattered into ditches where the dive bombers still found them. I remembered Nice with its sea and sky and palm trees still as bright as new travel posters and its sidewalks crowded with the most typical of twentieth-century tourists: displaced persons. I remembered the sensation of living in a dull fear-encircled vacuum and the incredulous joy with which I greeted my husband when he arrived hollow-eyed from his narrow escape and long hitch-hike across two countries. I remembered Lyons in the unheated winters, the wind scything between the cliff-like gray houses and inserting itself into the city's labyrinth of passageways. I remembered the turnip meals, the recurrent colds and chilblains, the disinclination to wash in icy water, the sordid temporary lodgings and false identity cards, the drearily uncomfortable atmosphere, and the exhilarating meetings with friends who had also escaped arrest. And then I remembered my husband's arrest and the nightmare that followed.

"Yes," I said, repudiating stiff upper lips, "yes, it was ghastly.”
― Monica Stirling, Ladies with a Unicorn

“(Mas também quem vai querer viver faminto?) (Um prédio de escritórios é capaz de, pelo menos, nos proteger do mau tempo.) (O amor médio parece até aconchegante.) (Acreditar em gentilezas pequeninas.)”
― Victor Heringer, O amor dos homens avulsos

“Your brain doesn't work very well in the sudden oxygen deprivation of 14,000 feet. Combine that with lack of sleep, and efficient work is extremely hard.”
― Mike Brown

“He had succumbed to loneliness. He craved physical touch and warmth even if he knew the other person had ulterior motives.”
― 爆炒小黄瓜, [歌剧魅影]魔鬼的美人

“Young minds are to be liberated from the apparition of deprivation and criticism which accumulated from schooling.”
― Lucky Onyeoghani, Thriving Beyond Schooling: A Guide to What Significance Demands