Graham Greene Quote by Joe Hill

“But sometimes, when confronted by something of unfathomable beauty, the bars of the cage around us begin to tremble. So I ran away to…

— Simon Van Booy

“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

“He’s in cotton-wool, pampered and cosseted, surrounded with hot-house flowers and picture papers. He’s a prisoner in a gilded cage. I wonder how long…

— D.E. Stevenson

“You see, I’ve heard of a man whose friend had been imprisoned and who slept on the floor of his room every night in…

— Albert Camus

“But this man Brown - it was difficult to place him at once. He talked, spreading his fingers out with the volubility of a…

— Virginia Woolf

“What Sands told him that changed the course of his life boiled down to this: If your environment and circumstances control your attitude, you’re…

— Brandon Webb

“The prisoner, having reached the depth of his depression, gradually reawakens to the life around him. He licks himself and his wounded pride, opens…

— P. H. Newman

“He proceeded on the theory that confinement within the walls of the prison was punishment. That the law never intended to confine prisoners within…

— Lewis E. Lawes

“When you are imprisoned, you can’t enjoy the benefits of being alive. You can’t educate yourself and discover the beauty of the world. Fishy”

— Lily Amis

“Imprisonment leads to either love or hate of the incarcerator. I chose love.”

— Faiqa Mansab

“Are we not all prisoners? She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell, and she…

— Virginia Woolf

“ended up doing time in jail for assaulting the object of her affection’s fiancée. Her defense was that she was trying to move the…

— Genevieve Woods