Deprived Quotes - Page 9

• Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.

  John Thorne

  Substance, Half, States

  John Thorne, Matt Lewis Thorne (2011). “Pot on the Fire: Further Confessions of a Renegade Cook”, p.140, Macmillan

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• When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Light, White, Space

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• Because we haven’t been taught to appreciate and love ourselves in this way, we don’t feel like we deserve self-care and pleasure. Instead, we cling to our To Do lists and sacrifice our health and well-being for the sake of others. Then, when we feel deprived of our basic human need for relaxation and enjoyment, we turn to food as our sole source of pleasure. When we then try to deprive ourselves of food through dieting, we deny the last bit of pleasure we have in our lives. And that strategy never works!

  Jessica Ortner

  Sacrifice, Self, Appreciate

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• The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.

  Florence King

  Stress, Simple, Orchids

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• As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between our respective species is no longer entirely reciprocal. Such exploitation is nowhere more evident than in the capture and display of cetaceans for profit. Stripped of their natural identity, deprived of their own culture and environment, the dolphin and whale incarcerated within the oceanarium not only symbolizes an abuse of that ancient relationship, but above all our estrangement from nature as a whole.

  Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

  Attitude, Whales, Humanity

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• If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Anxiety, Unhappy

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• although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

  Anais Nin

  Time, Hate, Believe

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• The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, May, Polyphemus

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• Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

  Aristotle

  Past, Times Past

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• Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

  Margaret Mead

  Groups, Poverty, Discrimination

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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• Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

  Rebecca West

  Cat, Doubt, Comfort

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• How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

  Iris Murdoch

  Happiness, Insult, Innocent

  Iris Murdoch (2008). “A Word Child”, p.7, Random House

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• We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong.

  L. Frank Baum

  Sorry, Two, Liberty

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Oz, the Complete Collection Volume 3 bind-up: The Patchwork Girl of Oz; Tik-Tok of Oz; The Scarecrow of Oz”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

  Joseph Joubert

  Excess, Delight

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The workaholics have done immense harm to the world. And the greatest harm they have done is that they have deprived life of its moments of celebration and festivity. It is because of them that there is so little festivity in the world, and every day it is becoming more and more dull and dreary and miserable.

  Rajneesh

  Done, World, Dull

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• The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less).

  Richard Dawkins

  Epidemics, Hysteria, Childhood

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.

  Hannah Arendt

  Government, Tyrants, Political

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• Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Religion, Trouble

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

  Catherine the Great

  Mean, Men, People

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• Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

  Sandra Boynton

  Food, Cooking, Chocolate

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• A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

  Hosea Ballou

  Religious, Men, Joy

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• cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.

  Mary Daly

  Knowledge, Cutting, Despair

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Saint, Employment, World

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.28

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• the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have.

  Harriet Martineau

  Men, Honorable Man, People

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.76

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• Keeping some calorie-dense food in your diet-whether it is meat, pasta, beer, or cake-allows you to reach satiety more quickly and easily. And this will keep you from feeling deprived.

  Mark Bittman

  Beer, Cake, Feelings

  Mark Bittman (2008). “Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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