Sarah Hegazi Quotes

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party.

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.

I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.

War violates the order of nature and causes parents to bury their children.

Sometimes history reads like a catalogue of post-traumatic stress.

Jail was terrible. It was a nightmare.