Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes

I really don't like being in jail.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult... I want you to know that I am well. I am safe, fit and healthy.

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

You can keep a person locked up too long.

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Go and lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move. I'm locking the door now

Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.

There's no way out of here.

The cell door slammed behind Rubishov.

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

To arrive is to be in prison.

So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!

For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.