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So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all. — Ray Bradbury

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use. — Roger Scruton

An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do. — Jonathan Franzen

privation is the cause of appetite — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election". — Ambrose Bierce

Under the vague dullness of the gray hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object and finds it in the privation of an untried good. — George Eliot

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains. — Charlotte Bronte

Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk) — Joseph Campbell

They'd get that back; when children no longer lived in fear and privation, the ability to hope was one of the first things to return. From — Mercedes Lackey

Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation. — Sophie Swetchine

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve. — Baruch Spinoza

Sin is the repetition of an absence, whose logic is suppression, aversion, and privation. — David Bentley Hart

All unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity. — Leo Tolstoy

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little. — John Maynard Keynes

[T]he world springs out of a want, out of privation, but it is false speculation to make this privation an ontological being. — Ludwig Feuerbach

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I knew I might die, but I was prepared to risk that; it was almost romantic. Somehow it never occurred to me it might entail privation and suffering. — Iain M. Banks

Privation is the source of appetite. — Juana Ines De La Cruz