Crime Quote by Herman Koch

“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

“So I learned that after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison.”

— Albert Camus

“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

“It's easily possible that someone who spends a Week inside Prison with you, gets to know you better than someone who knew you for…

— Sino Melo

“Three months of prison and torture! It’s a terrible ordeal! But for others, it lasts ten years, twenty years! It kills some!” I understood…

— Phakyab RINPOCHE

“Prison is, you don’t judge people, you accept them. If they get out of line you knock them out. When in doubt, you punch…

— Marlin Marynick

“For many people it is depressing even to move house. A lost fragment of life always remains. To move to another town, settle in…

— Franz Werfel

“If I spent ten years in prison, I’d probably come to value the small things in life. Things like good food, a comfy bed,…

— Jarod Kintz

“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

“How do you survive for years in prison? You don’t think about years, or months, or weeks. You think about today—how to get through…

— John Grisham

“You undergo your own incarceration. You may witness your demise piece by piece. You may be one kind of fool who never gets enough…

— Louise Erdrich

“At first, the drudgery of mastering your craft is a prison—boring, slow, and with an awareness of how much time you’ll have to put…

— Jarod Kintz