#deprive

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#allowing #appetites #brings #death #deprives

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

#deprived #evil #free #free will #given

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#because #being #books #companionship #conscious

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human. ↗

— Luis Barragan

#being #called #deprived #human #life

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#culture #deprived #elevated #i #i see

When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway. ↗

— Holly Marie Combs

#back #become #came #deprived #does

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#attitude #childhood #deprived #dreadful #feel

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. ↗

— George Washington

#abuse #deprive #found #his #liberty

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#charge #deprive #future #globally #going

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

#against #deprived #disgrace #himself #man