“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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 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
The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in… — Chelsea Manning 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
“Evoke at painful junctures, when discouragement threatens to raise its head, the image of a vast cretinous mouth, red blubber and slobbering,… — Samuel Beckett 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
Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine. — Limmy Copy Share Image
I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts of time… — Mary Roach 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
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
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
How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation… — Vanessa Redgrave 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
“I am often reminded how a small fire underneath a vast sky can bind people together like nothing else. For all that… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“Our inner dialogue is frequently composed of old tape loops that we run again and again... The normal personality marshals sufficient defense… — Sam Keen 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
“I remember when I was probably about ten years old I had a pen pal, and writing letters back and forth with… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
