Crime Quote by Timothy M. Burke

“It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.”

— Elizabeth Wein

“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That…

— Matt Haig

“Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.”

— Ashim Shanker

“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the…

— Nelson Mandela

“Even the works of Shakespeare might be more thoroughly appreciated if they were re-examined from unorthodox positions. Someone, once in a while, should take…

— Sōseki Natsume

“A comfortable prison was still a prison.”

— Salman Rushdie

“The best thing...perhaps the only good thing--about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he…

— Neil Gaiman

“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

“I feel always that I am a prisoner.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“You came out of prison incredibly buff or with an addiction to paperback novels.”

— Heather O'Neill

“Prison and the asylums had made me worse, not better. I had truly become a hostage of my past, condemned by my reputation and…

— Charles Bronson

“Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.”

— Scott Lynch