Dark humor Quote by Louis-Ferdinand Céline Download Open image ““Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail.”” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dark humor
“Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offense.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment as well as the prison.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“Imprisonment leads to either love or hate of the incarcerator. I chose love.” — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“No one is a prisoner. Even you have the power to make your own choices.” — Dhonielle Clayton Copy Share Image
“...people called it justice, but prison doesn't make everything better," he observes. "Just because someone pays a price doesn't mean they didn't steal from… — Autumn Doughton Copy Share Image
“I know my worth. Never again will I condemn myself to the prison of a bad relationship.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“All our misery comes from wanting at all costs to go on being Tom, Dick, or Harry, year in, year out. This body of ours, this disguise put on my common jumping molecules, is in constant revolt against the abominable farce of having to endure. Our molecules, the dears, want to get lost in the universe as fast as they… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share
“Now I know... we have at least two friends!... Cillie von Leiden and the hunchback... not bad in our situation... or, come right down… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“People cling to their rotten memories, to all their misfortunes, and you can't pry them loose. These things keep them busy. They avenge themselves… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“The moral high ground proved to be one hell of an aphrodisiac...” — Eve A. Floriste Copy Share Image
“I've always been a monster,' Scapegrace told her, 'but now, finally, my physical for reflects my inner darkness.' 'You smell terrible.' 'That's the smell… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“Please, please be some sex-starved nutcase who wants to kidnap me and make me your love slave, I begged silently.” — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
“It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's fun and games you can't see anymore.” — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
“So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Because it’s a lit fuse, love – you light it yourself, and you stand around the powder keg afterward, grinning from ear to ear.” — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
“Dennis, please. I don't know what-" "Shut the fuck up, and stop playing me for an idiot. And secondly, and more importantly, I've unearthed… — Simon Kernick Copy Share Image
“The Baudelaire orphans hung on to one another, and wept and wept while the adults argued endlessly behind them. Finally-as, I'm sorry to say,… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image