#privation

I think she's afraid to even hug me now. It's my fault, but I miss it, Andrew. I miss it so much it aches sometimes, you know?' I do know. I do know, I want to tell him, but I let him talk. And he does, with a gut-wrenching honesty that tears at my heart. 'I want to be held. Is that so wrong? I want to be held, and stroked. I want to know that someone loves me. I want to feel it on my skin.' He looks at the ceiling and exhales, then meets my eyes again. 'But nobody touches me anymore. Not even when I have a fever. Mom just hands me a thermometer now.' He drops his eyes and his ears redden. 'Even when you kiss me, you don't touch me. It's like I'm a leper or something. I can hardly keep my hands off of you, but it's not the same for you, is it? ↗

— J.H. Trumble

#loneliness #sensory-deprivation #touch-me #undesirable #word-of-your-body

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#deprivation #good #host #loneliness #youth

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#because #changes #complete #deprivation #families

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation. ↗

— John Prescott

#been #billions #central #central government #deprivation

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace. ↗

— Thomas R. Kelly

#economic #god #loving #mistaken #nature

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 #beauty

For lack of love one does a million other things. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#busyness #deprivation #love #love

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

#bear #dictate #direction #him #his

Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

#britain #deprivation #firmly #imperative #interest

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#anything #close #deprivation #family #felt