Privation Quotes
31 Privation quotes by 27 unique authors
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Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore…
— Epicurus
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I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death…
— John Strachan
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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…
— Ambrose Bierce
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TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Privation Quotes
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