8 Quotes About Deprivation

Deprivation quotes give us an inside look into the character of people who are struggling with their self-worth. It is amazing how the little things affect our daily lives. We often take them for granted and never appreciate them until we’re deprived of them. These deprivation quotes will make you appreciate everything you have, making it easier to love yourself and others.

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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
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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
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Deprived of magic, wonder wanes John J. Geddes
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We don't have to always win, Sometimes we need to be deprived by others to improve ourselves. Grace
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A fog of despair so pervaded the ghetto that the smallest gesture of rebellion could seem like a bold, piercing light. Bad, said with a fond expression, was almost always a compliment. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
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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
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Conservatism -- hard work -- saving one's money -- looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Eveless paradise, that. Theodore Dreiser