Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion
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Dan Simmons
We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.
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Norman Mailer
All others are outside myself; I lock my door and bar them out The turmoil, tedium, gad-about. I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all? If I could once lay down myself,...
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Christina Rossetti
But we who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. We have nothing else to think of. Suffering ― curious as it may sound to...
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Oscar Wilde
While we are together, I will never suffer a prison again.
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Victoria Aveyard
More Quotes By Abdullah Abu Snaineh
In prison, you learn to count each day and each moment. You even count the bad 'meals' and the unbearable ones.