Adversity Quote by James Keller

“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

“I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But…

— Fidel Castro

“If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past Security in human systems we're told will always always last Emotions are the…

— Sting

“We are trapped here up on this wall by an evil beyond comprehension. It is here that we are damned to remain for all…

— Nathalie M. Leblanc

“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Hostile to the past, impatient of the present, and cheated of the future, we were much like those whom men's justice, or hatred, forces…

— Albert Camus

“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

“A prisoner of he who has already slain you once, he thought. No doubt near to his place of power, in a cage built…

— Roger Zelazny

“The tower was battered, a relic of a distant past. Yet there was a dignity to it, a grace that belied the pockmarked walls…

— Paul Fraser Collard

“A mind that dwells in the past builds a prison it cannot escape. Control your mind, or it will control you, and you will…

— A.G. Riddle

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

— Anonymous

“if I've learned anything through all this, it's that you can't build walls around the people you care about. You can't do it to…

— Kay Hooper