Abdication Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Apart from the moral deformity resulting from the sudden release of mental pressure, there were two other fundamental experiences which threatened to damage the…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“In short, from then on, we accepted our status as prisoners; we were reduced to our past alone and even if a few people…

— Albert Camus

“I am not a good enough writer to convey the intense emotion I felt over my newfound self-respect. It was a rehabilitation, if not…

— Henri Charrière

Each time I left prison, I left with the resolve to get my life together, to get a job, to get back on track.…

— Susan Burton

“You had to be free in your heart. Guilt, fear, anger—they were all their own kinds of prison. You could be out in the…

— Ronald Cotton

We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty.…

— L. Frank Baum

The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as…

— Neil Gaiman

When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I found myself. When I…

— Paulo Coelho

“Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom,…

— Nenia Campbell

“Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of…

— P.W. Thirion

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

— Diane Setterfield