A Quote by Wole Soyinka

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

Quote Topics

Any Because Being Being Mad Books Companionship Conscious Deprived Destroy Effort Fact How How Much Human Know Know How Made Means Mind Much Need Never Until Very Writing

Quote Author

Wole Soyinka
Nigerian - Novelist
Born: July 13, 1934

Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Margaret Mead

... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

Lucretius

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.

Forest Whitaker

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

Confucius

Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to keep this in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all.

Marcus Aurelius

Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is deprived of prayer draws nigh to weakness and noetic death.

Gennadius of Constantinople

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

Gloria Steinem

Through the practice of yoga, you come to feel confident and develop a feeling of wholeness and completeness; you are not likely to feel deprived or 'less than.' People steal because they feel deprived. They try to make up for their deficits by depriving others.

Sharon Gannon

No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

Marcus Aurelius

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

Woodrow Wilson

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

Wole Soyinka

The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.