Life Quote by Amor Towles

“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

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

— Curt Siodmak

“There are a thousand circumstances in which a man may be justified in a particular course of action, and that course yet may be…

— James Malcolm Rymer

“How can a prisoner understand their punishment to have been worthwhile to anyone, when it's dealt in a way so offhand and indifferent?”

— Piper Kerman

“Playing the victim is like surrendering to self-imprisonment.”

— Cynthia Olmedo

“By dying for a conviction a man proves only that he is sincere, not that he is right.”

— Roland H. Bainton

“does a man who makes his observations while he himself is a prisoner possess the necessary detachment? Such detachment is granted to the outsider,…

— Victor Frankl

“Is that not the whole point of gaining experience, to use it to make wiser choices, to temper destructive instincts, to find better resolutions?”

— R.A. Salvatore

“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

“Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.”

— Peter Ustinov

“Before you can act fully and truly, you must know the prison in which you are living, how it has been created; and in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“You can almost define a convict as one who lacks precisely the kind of wisdom and self-control necessary to derive long-term advantage from short-term…

— Stephen Fry