Love Deprivation Quotes

#1. Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

Kingsley Amis

#2. Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

Mark Twain

#3. Everybody always talks about it, about how you don't know love until you meet your baby, and you really feel that. There are no words. It was a really wonderful surprise. And there is no way to prepare yourself for the sleep deprivation and what comes with it.

Hilary Duff

#4. When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

Abraham Maslow

#5. Willing or not, we are all hostages of the joy of which we deprive ourselves. Here springs love's pre-eternal sadness.

Odysseus Elytis

#6. Socialism is nihilistic, in the henceforth precise sense that Nietzsche confers on the word. A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists.

Albert Camus

#7. Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#8. Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Sigmund Freud

#9. I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the people here and the anguish and suffering and deprivation of human rights that you have experienced ever since 1948.

Jimmy Carter

#10. Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.

Eknath Easwaran

#11. There is only one real deprivation ... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

May Sarton

#12. How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?

Orhan Pamuk

#13. For lack of love one does a million other things.

Marty Rubin

#14. Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

Plato

#15. I was never afriad of what was under the bed. I wanted it but never got it. I became it.

Marilyn Manson

#16. Even now I'll see her looking at him, her eyes milky yet full of longing, and all he ever gives her is a gentle, absent nod. Perhaps this is the nature of true deprivation - a lifetime of love, tenderly spurned.

Jane Avrich

#17. To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

Juvenal

#18. People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#19. It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landlocked, unacquainted with love and all but a stranger to death ... I had absented myself in my smug and airless self-deprivation.

William Styron

#20. There are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate.

Marjorie Hillis