Prison Sentence Quotes

“The days rolled by in the camp—they were over before you could say "knife." But the years, they never rolled by; they never moved by a second.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

“Life is so fragile and unpredictable, especially when you are in a gang or in a life of crime. It’s like playing poker; you think to yourself that you have a good hand. However, it is only when you reveal your hand do you sometimes discover to your horror that someone else’s hand is better.”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“Only someone who has been even for a brief moment within the gloomy walls of a dungeon can know how to solve those problems in which numbers form a terrible part of human misery.”
― Malba Tahan, The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures