Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

“In short, from then on, we accepted our status as prisoners; we were reduced to our past alone and even if a few people…

— Albert Camus

“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

Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“A freed soldier is often furious. The days and nights he lost, the torture and humiliation he suffered-it all demands a fierce revenge”

— Mitch Albom

“The feeling of intense repulsion, which had begun to oppress and torture his heart while he was on his way to the old woman,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“All he had to contend with now were his memories, which weren’t pretty. In prison, he’d managed to stave them off with dreams of…

— Jeremy Duns

“Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he had learned at a very…

— Alice Miller

“I am not a good enough writer to convey the intense emotion I felt over my newfound self-respect. It was a rehabilitation, if not…

— Henri Charrière

“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Under ground, under ground! Down in the safe soft womb of earth, where there is no getting of jobs or losing of jobs, no…

— George Orwell

“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless…

— Jonathan Franzen