Top 491 Sensory Deprivation Quotes & Sayings

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself. We no longer expect the sensory world to satisfy us. We no longer demand that sensory consciousness be anything other than an existing condition that we can use skillfully according to time and place.

In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

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.

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

I have, like, sensory overload problems.

I think the best way to listen to my music is through recording. I would love to be one of those artists where you can go into a coffee shop and watch people pass by and then my music is in their ears. Not necessarily a sensory deprivation thing, but that's cool too. Unfortunately in order to focus on nobody else, you would probably have to go into a dark room and just sit there and listen to it.

Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

When you're in the military, you get accustomed to sleep deprivation.

My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.

There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.

For far too many people in the world, the vicious cycle of financial deprivation also feeds into the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation. If you're working two or three jobs and struggling to make ends meet, "get more sleep" is probably not going to be near the top of your priorities list.

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

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

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.

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.

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.

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

[On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability.

We are evolving from five-sensory humans into multisensory humans.... The perceptions of the multi-sensory human extend beyond physical reality to the larger dynamical systems of which our physical reality is a part.

I'm trying to make a primitive painting. I'm trying to summon the archaic. I want to enter into a primitive situation. This is my protest against the sensory deprivation that we experience, which is due to this tendency towards globalization, towards homogenization, towards the generic - a technological standard rather than an aesthetic standard. I'm mining history, trying to regenerate a pictorial situation that is more humanistic. It's not about commodification, it's not about fitting into some sort of corporate structure. It's opposed to that direction.

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

Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.

There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.

Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Life has become a state of sensory overload.

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

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank.

Anyone who reads '33 Men' will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.

Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind rebels against bland, single-texture foods, edibles that do not engage the oral device.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living.

It takes nothing to get me to sensory overload.

One of the places where research is needed is all the sensory problems. And you get sensory problems not just with autism, but with dyslexia, learning problems, ADHD, attention deficit, you know, things like sound sensitivity, problems with fluorescent lighting.

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

Sleep deprivation can be a serious problem in romantic relationships.

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.

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.

The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't think in a language, and animals don't think in a language. It's sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. It's putting these sensory based memories into categories.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.