Sensory Deprivation Quotes:

The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

- Joe Rogan

topic: Mind, Important, Tools, Sensory, Sensory Deprivation

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

- Philip Larkin

topic: Poetry, Wordsworth, Deprivation, Literary Criticism, Daffodil

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

- Carrie P. Meek

topic: Children, Trying, Tough, Sensory Deprivation

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

- Tatum O'Neal

topic: Abuse, Domestic Violence, Overcoming, Sensory Deprivation

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

source: May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.140, Open Road Media

topic: Love, Real, Giving, Sensory Deprivation

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

- Octavio Paz

topic: Expression, History, Missing, Recourse, Sensory Deprivation

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

- Rosalind Russell

topic: Beauty, Deprivation, Starvation, Sensory Deprivation

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

topic: Growing Up, Parent, Needs, Family Growing Up, Sensory Deprivation

Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Real, Writing, Small Rooms, Sensory Deprivation

Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma. ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed.

- Gretel Ehrlich

source: Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.51, Penguin

topic: Memories, Ocean, Sea, Wide Awake, Sensory Deprivation

Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do anything but write. The crowded city, the crowded apartment, and the crowded calendar suddenly seem spacious. Three or four hours pass in a moment; I have no idea what time it is, because I never check the clock. If I chose to listen, I could hear the swish of taxis bound for downtown bars or the soft saxophone riffs that drift from a neighbor's window, but nothing gets through. I am suspended in a sensory deprivation tank, and the very lack of sensation is delicious.

- Anne Fadiman

topic: Sleep, Writing, Ideas, Delicious, Crowded Cities

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Real, Small Rooms, World, Colorless, Sensory

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

- J. Maarten Troost

source: J. Maarten Troost (2006). “Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu”, p.8, Broadway Books

topic: Appreciated, Deprivation, Weariness, Overload, Sensory

South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.

- Bill Bryson

topic: World, Firsts, Deprivation, South Dakota, Sensory