The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and… — Eric Maisel 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
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. — Florence King Copy Share Image
The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected. — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you spit in my face and smack me in the mouth and throw me into solitary confinement for nothing... what do… — Charles Manson 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
What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself.… — Charles Manson 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
“Correction officers struck adolescents in the head and face at “an alarming rate” as punishment, even when inmates posed no threat; officers… — Anonymous 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
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
“Jordan Two, on the other hand, was condemned to a state of being that made the harshest solitary confinement look like a… — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
They put me in solitary confinement, and although I went on to do 8,755 days of solitary in total, the first two… — Nick Yarris 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
“The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way:… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“Imagine someone sitting alone in a room without television, radio, computer or phone and with the door closed and the blinds down.… — Michael Foley 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
“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 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
“A family trip to Jersey – that’s the Channel Islands, not New Jersey, folks – netted brand-new gatefold editions of Van der… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Life is a solitary confinement , Every second is a punishment - of a crime , that was never committed , Or… — BinYamin Gulzar 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
“Nevertheless two men good-humouredly greeted her, and both times she froze into nervous annoyance, and walked on with hastening steps. She got… — Doris Lessing 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
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
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
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
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
Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“They got it wrong when they called it “the closet." This was a prison. Solitary confinement. I was locked inside, inside myself,… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
“We are relational creatures. All humans live in community and most people seek social interaction. In western culture, isolation is seen as… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence… — Peter Straub 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
I did a lot of research on what solitary confinement does to you, how you become acclimated to being surrounded by people… — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
