Prison Quotes

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Even at the timeâ€”twenty years oldâ€”I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at… — Isaac Babel
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. — Orson Scott Card
It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding… — Albert Einstein
The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize… — Henry Miller
Prison is like high school with knives. — Raegan Butcher
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone â€˜identifiedâ€™ me. Then a… — Anna Akhmatova
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing… — Daniil Kharms
That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell… — Megan Whalen Turner
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse… — Wystan Hugh Auden
For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire. — Unknown Author
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. — Alberto Manguel
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars;… — Andre Malraux
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing. — Anais Nin
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat. — Bill Watterson
The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own,… — Brandon Mull
Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state. — Peter Kropotkin
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how… — Nelson Mandela
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the… — Anton Chekhov

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