John Burroughs

My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me. I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.

American Author

Hamza Yusuf

For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

American Clergyman

Marquis de Lafayette

The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They are more inured to privation, more patient than Europeans, who, on these two points, cannot be compared to them.

French Revolutionary

Anne Frank

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

German Writer

Elif Batuman

Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

American Lawyer

John Strachan

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 itself.

Canadian Clergyman

John Kenneth Galbraith

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

American Economist

Jeanette Winterson

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

British Novelist

Janet Erskine Stuart

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

English Poet

Understand that 'privation' carries an emotional tone of sympathy for those suffering.

Emotional Weight

'Privation' implies lacking necessities, not just having low income.

Not Just Poverty

Use 'privation' in discussions about social issues, disasters, and conflicts.

Context Matters

'Privation' also refers to non-material things you miss, like sleep or comfort.

Beyond Material Needs

Differentiate between 'voluntary' and 'involuntary' privation in your usage.

Choice Matters

Use 'privation' to emphasize personal loss or sacrifice.

Personal Aspect

In the legal context, 'privation' often involves loss of titles or positions.

Legal Specificity

'Privation' used legally indicates a severe form of punishment or consequence.

Severity in Law

The legal use of 'privation' is formal and may not be common in casual speech.

Formality in Use

 Others come from the underbelly of society, never given a chance to mobilize foster care dropouts, teenage runaways escaping abuse and unforgiving homes. Where others see stories of privation