Break Quote by Tahir Shah

I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But I endured…

— Samir Geagea

They put me in solitary confinement, and although I went on to do 8,755 days of solitary in total, the first two were the…

— Nick Yarris

I did a lot of research on what solitary confinement does to you, how you become acclimated to being surrounded by people again after…

— Bill Skarsgard

You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is that you…

— Chelsea Manning

I didn't mind the 23 hours a day solitary confinement for the majority of the time, because after the first few years in prison,…

— Nick Yarris

I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no…

— Anonymous

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

— Jules Verne

When I thought I'd killed him, I felt more alone than I've felt in a long time. Like I couldn't stand walking through this…

— Anonymous

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

— Joseph Brodsky

I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which…

— Nelson Mandela

Travelling alone gave me time and space, free of the pressures of trying to verbalise experiences, so I could simply feel the joy of…

— Vick Hope

For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that…

— Frances Farmer