Deprivation Quotations

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

[On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability.

You must learn to control your money, or to the permanent deprivation control you

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.