16 quotes found
“When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.”
“I guess a little bit hero is enough. A little bit hero is all anyone really needs to be.”
“You don't have to be perfect to be good. You can do bad things and still be a good person.”
“Yeah, save the idiots in government, definitely a priority. He didn't say it out loud, though.”
“Yeah, because you'll really be showing them, won't you. Talk about cutting up your wrists to spite your fate.”
“He had always thought that hell would be hot. But here they were, right inside the mouth of it, and it was freezing.”
“When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you'...”
“Hope-that unshakable golden belief that things can get better- is why I'm here talking to you now. Without it, we are nothing.”
“You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.”
“Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.”
“And what could the darkness be, other than humanity? This crushing, heavy mass of people who had no legitimate right to life. How many souls lived on earth now? Six billion? Seven? All of them like...”
“Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope that unshakabl...”
“I have said so many times to many people on the spiritual path, 'You must be strong in yourself to help others. People who are in the emotional sea need someone who can pull them out, not someone w...”
“This thing was what existed before life, before the first stars, before the big bang. It was the emptiness before the universe, and the emptiness that would follow.”
“As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we're separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into yo...”
“We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?”