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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
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