He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement, — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Falling and serving a sentence of solitary confinement. Result in the death sentence just filling my running assignment. — Sage Francis Copy Share Image
I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But… — Samir Geagea Copy Share Image
“My heart was beating so hard that for a second I thought I might pass out. It was like revisiting the hole… — Heather King Copy Share Image
It's strange when they near your cell. You lose all your strength and you are like this. You lose all your strength… — Sakae Menda Copy Share Image
As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's… — John McCain Copy Share Image
You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
We fight for territory. We see it in our Congress, we see it in our political systems, we see it in our… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of… — Wilbert Rideau Copy Share Image
“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“But this man Brown - it was difficult to place him at once. He talked, spreading his fingers out with the volubility… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The hardest part of autism is the communication challenge. I feel depressed often by my inability to speak. I talk in my… — Ido Kedar Copy Share Image
“Er is slechts één rijkdom en dat zijn de banden tussen de mensen onderling. Als we ons enkel en alleen inspannen voor… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“In August, Gehlen and a number of high-ranking colleagues were transported under Boker’s watch to Washington in the private plane of a… — Andrew Feinstein Copy Share Image
“According to the Post, Immigration and Customs Enforcement maintains fifteen detention centers around the country and on any given day there are… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply. — Will Self Copy Share Image
“It was a state of aloneness. It was the kind of place that started shooting political prisoners because it suspected that they… — Will Wiles Copy Share Image
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
“Do you know how many men are incarcerated in solitary confinement? About 100,000 on any given day, if my numbers are correct.… — H.L. Sudler Copy Share Image
As governor, I will work to reform the practice of solitary confinement, which studies and medical and psychological associations say causes negative… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
“Foster care workers called Dani a feral child —the first they had encountered. She had never been to a doctor or school.… — Lane DeGregory Copy Share Image
It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“The world can understand well enough the process of perishing for want of food: perhaps few persons can enter into or follow… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
