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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever. -- Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once. -- Gabrielle Roy
Deprived is the one who has never witnessed his own desperate need for God. Reliant on his own means, he forgets that the means, his own soul, and everything else in existence are His creation. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant; food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the name of which is love, Babies would rather die. And often they do. -- Frederick Leboyer
Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet why these glorious sunsets, I ask myself, if nature does not speak to us with tongues of fire. -- J. M. Coetzee
According to a recent study, ten percent of 'Star Trek' fans meet the psychological criteria for addiction. Deprived of their favourite show, some Trekkies disply withdrawal symptoms similar to drug addicts. Of course, the real difference is that drug addicts aren't nearly as annoying. -- Jay Leno
What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming - a physical pain. -- Jojo Moyes
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything. -- Aldous Huxley
Much better stay in company!To love you must have someone else,Giving requires a legatee,Good neighbours need whole parishfulsOf folk to do it on - in short,Our virtues are all social; if,Deprived of solitude, you chafe,It's clear you're not the virtuous sort. -- Philip Larkin
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human. -- Luis Barragan
I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived. -- Meryl Streep
The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time. -- Laurie Colwin
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. -- Jules Verne
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer. -- Leonard Mlodinow
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. -- Thomas Aquinas
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. -- Germaine Greer
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. -- John Ruskin
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? -- Brendan Behan
I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived. -- Stokely Carmichael
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. -- Thomas Paine
Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged. -- Henry Rollins
America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves. -- Mario Cuomo
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. -- Thomas de Quincey
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. -- Oprah Winfrey
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived. -- Michelangelo
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. -- Marie Antoinette
I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something. -- Shelby Foote
The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future. -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived. -- Francis Quarles
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself. -- Anne Bronte
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return? -- Epictetus
I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom - good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.' -- Drew Barrymore
Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based on our choices of subway reading. Just by glimpsing the cover staring back at us, we can reach the pinnacle of carnal desire or the depths of hatred. Soul mate or mortal enemy. -- David Rakoff
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The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth. -- Epictetus
Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education. -- Russell Kirk
We know well only what we are deprived of. -- Francois Mauriac
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses! -- Joseph Joubert
Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions. -- Charles A. Reich
He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity. -- Ali Mazrui
Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation. -- Laozi
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. -- William Hazlitt
Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling. -- Aristotle
Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot. -- Jim Butcher
If I don't eat veggies with a meal, I feel deprived. -- Bruce Ames
I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech -- Loretta Swit
I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech. -- Loretta Swit
If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived. -- Gloria Swanson
A heart can only become fragile if unconditional self-love is continuously deprived from it. -- Edmond Mbiaka
If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger. -- Smiley Blanton
The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech. -- Jules Verne
I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian. -- N. Scott Momaday
ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . . -- Ambrose Bierce
The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck. -- Monica Crowley
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. -- Mason Cooley
World seems like a void of silence every time footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything. -- Leonardo da Vinci
If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs. -- Oliver Herford
How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived. -- Iris Murdoch
Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story. -- Sandra Brown
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell. -- Igor Stravinsky
In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination. -- Robert Breault
Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them. -- Jack London
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. -- Polybius
I think there is this sensation of being deprived of something that you are entitled to have. -- Ingrid Betancourt
The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one. -- Khaled Hosseini
Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
[Eva Braun] complained when [Adolf Hitler] was absent, she complained that she was deprived of his company. -- Gretl Braun
Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right. -- Mao Zedong
I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild. -- Tina Weymouth
The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness. -- John Henry Cox
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death. -- Saul Bellow
Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage. -- Ron Paul
Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life. -- Anton Chekhov
With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art. -- Garry Kasparov
So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been. -- Agathon
Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it. -- Ronald Reagan
The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived. -- Robert Breault
A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction -- John Calvin
I'm active, but I just don't like being hungry or feeling like I've deprived myself. I want to enjoy life. -- Suki Waterhouse
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. -- Jean Rostand
I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force. -- Winston Churchill
A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has (been) deprived of (the Bible). -- Woodrow Wilson
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture. -- Billy Graham
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived. -- Margaret Mead
My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged. -- Karen Armstrong
I grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face. -- David Blunkett
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Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have. -- Kasie West
Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word. -- Rebecca West
What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist? -- Peter D. Kramer
The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose. -- Confucius
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. -- Azar Nafisi
Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.' There are some similarities. -- Janet Evanovich
As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil. -- Martin Luther
God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence. -- Stephen Charnock
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act. -- Hannah Arendt
We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree. -- William Cowper
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. -- Hesiod
My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child. -- Ray Romano
I love having a full schedule everyday and always being a little bit sleep deprived and just kind of love that lifestyle. -- Lauren Conrad
Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived. -- John Thorne
How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information. -- Criss Jami
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. -- John Berger
The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits. -- Winston Churchill
Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that. -- Shane Osborn
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them. -- Teresa of Avila
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights. -- Jane Addams
I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived! -- Lisa Loeb

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