Pawiak Prison Quotes & Sayings

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. — Andrea Dworkin

The whole Universe is moving all the time, and we must do like-wise. — Paulo Coelho

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent. — Stephen Breyer

But it was abundant in Canada like leaves in a forest. — Chigozie Obioma

When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. — Scott Adams

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud! — William Shakespeare

They are poets of gesture. — George Balanchine

And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you ... — Tadeusz Borowski

She wasn't crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things he'd seen her feeling that day when she heard? She wasn't that big a girl to hold all of it - to hold her brother's life and his death inside of her. To hold all his long-limbed raging tidal motion and all the loss of that. — Francesca Lia Block

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Another plum, another plum, another plum for me! Jocko shakes the cyber tree! Ah ha-ha-ha, Ah ha-ha-ha! — Dean Koontz

One knows one's madness, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy. — Glen Duncan

If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain. — Lou Andreas-Salome

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions! — Charlie Flynn

Intuition is something all of us have been given. — Echo Bodine