Quotes About Privation

Mum, mum, He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all, shall want some.

Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

Ed Murrow]would remark during a BBC broadcast: "It is difficult to explain the meaning of cold to people who are warm, the meaning of privation to people who have wanted only for luxuries...It is almost impossible to substitute intelligence for experience.

That this multitude of pores was the cause of the blackness of the Coal; for, said they, a body that has so many pores, from each of which no light is reflected, must necessarily look black, since black is nothing else but a privation of light, or a want of reflection.

Whoa, Mother Hubbard. That's some empty cupboard.

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

Some have meat, and cannot eat, And some cannot eat that want it; But we have meat, and we can eat - And let the Lord be thanked.

Want is an interesting word. It means lack.

Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.

A determinate emptiness: a lack, a privation, a dimension (new type of intellectual existence).

The trans-phenomenal reality of love would be, not that of a positive being who is without doubt, but that of...a lack...the other person as occupying the entire horizon of my life and not as a positive being. Love is the same thing as privation.

but human beings measure risk and privation within the compass of their personal knowledge.

The world was cruel with its rations.

You can only understand the uselessness of money if you find yourself in a desert with a handful of a bag of money. You will starve to death.

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

That which could hunger, could starve.

Where waste occurs, want will follow

Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death." Auntie Mame

Life is a banquet and most poor bastards are starving to death!