Going Without Quotes

“Growing up means learning to go without."
"What a depressing thought."
"It's not so bad. Starve long enough, you forget your hunger."
He leaned closer. "If it's so easy to lose your appetite, maybe you were never truly hungry at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“If you feel that you are going without go within”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Doing without
is a great protector of reputations
since all places one cannot go
are fabulous, and only the rare and
enlightened plowman in his field
or on his mountain does not overrate
what he does not or cannot have.”
― David Ray, Gathering Firewood: New Poems and Selected