Blood Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I beg your earnest attention, mademoiselle, for what I say concerning THE RARE FEW WITH WHOM THE SOUL IS EVERYTHING. YOU are one of…

— Marie Corelli

“Ironically for someone who had so long asserted his own individuality as his first and best defense against insults of any kind, I discovered…

— John McCain

Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

“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

Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

— John Kennedy Toole

“When first I was put into prison some people advised me to try and forget who I was. It was ruinous advice. It is…

— Oscar Wilde

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

— Mathias Rust

“As a younger man, I burned with enthusiasm for my work: I was to be a warrior, the champion of reviled or exiled passions.…

— DeSales Harrison

in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked

— Helene Cixous

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.

— Anonymous

In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of…

— Carson McCullers

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't…

— Frederick Lenz