Condemned Man Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. — Nathanael West
...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong. — Nick Drake
In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might… — Viktor E. Frankl
At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the… — Nikolai Gogol
The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want to hearken and… — Erich Maria Remarque
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. — Simone Weil
a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned… — Jose Saramago
It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart… — Roland Barthes
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions â€¦… — Jean-Paul Sartre
maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead.… — Albert Camus
So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time. — Albert Camus
You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison… — Anthony de Mello

Who Wrote These Condemned Man Quotes

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