Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.”

— Ashim Shanker

“You remember how it feels, don’t you? All that desire scorching you straight through. Feeling like you’re penned up in a small-town cage, jailed…

— Norman Partridge

“Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?”

— William Shakespeare

“One way or another, we’re all prisoners.”

— Eliza Granville

“He was the little mouse that I'd trained and fed with crumbs in my prison cell; the mouse that was crucified.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“I just came this morning and haven't been debriefed yet about the status of our latest prisoners. As a matter of fact, I'd barely…

— Elle Aycart

“...you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...”

— John Geddes

“The hours I would spend in the prison visiting room were among the most comforting of my life. They sped by, the only occasion…

— Piper Kerman

“The best thing...perhaps the only good thing--about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he…

— Neil Gaiman

“It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.”

— Elizabeth Wein

“Some guys have it real fucked up in prison, real hard. Some guys will be doing somebody's laundry. Some guys will be on their…

— Suge Knight

“The Prisoner All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out of!”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay