Philosophy Quote by Sarah Perry

“Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafés on the Strand; it was lost by those…

— Sarah Perry

“With the instincts of convicts who discover the gates of their prison open, the individual oranges rolled in every direction to maximize their chances…

— Amor Towles

“Soon after this incident the court rose. As I was being taken from the courthouse to the prison van, I was conscious for a…

— Albert Camus

“It was that time every afternoon when prisoners were released from their cells for an hour and allowed to walk around the yard, get…

— Jeffrey Archer

“I am thinking of poets who haven't written well in years but who rubbed against the sun twenty years ago-- Aren't they in their…

— B.J. Ward

“Time and the things that are imprisoned in time's memory”

— Paulo Coelho

“The shades of the prison house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction…

— Charles Dickens

“Time must be such a patient fellow to put up with the monotony of each moment. Each second ticking away with ungodly precision, reminding…

— Sreejit Poole

“The first thought of writing this book came to me two years ago after I had driven through the mining district of Lanarkshire. The…

— Edwin Muir

“We are all prisoners of our past. It shapes and defines us and can no more be forgotten than changed.”

— Leonard Goldberg

“Lastly, it should be noted that the nostalgia which the reading public maintains for my former Baker Street address does not exist in me.…

— Mitch Cullin