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Deprivation Quotes

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Reply to question "Do you think people go around feeling they haven't got out of life what life has to offer?"- Required Writing (1983) p. 47

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.32, Emblem Editions

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

Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.120, Beacon Press

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

Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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

Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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

Eknath Easwaran (1996). “Original Goodness: Elknath Easwaran on the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.72, Nilgiri Press

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

William Maxwell, Barbara Burkhardt (2012). “Conversations with William Maxwell”, p.39, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.

Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.149, Penguin Group