Tarrafal Prison Quotes & Sayings

It felt like dying, but the part that really hurt the most was coming back to life. — Skye Warren

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed. — Sue Townsend

The more people you run into, the greater your exposure, the easier it is to understand and empathize with other people. So if you are living in a much smaller ecosystem, it's probably easier to have simpler feelings. — James Scott

Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker. — Sabrina Jeffries

Only some things are worth doing well. Most things that are worth doing are only worth doing sloppily. Many things aren't worth doing at all. Anything not worth doing at all is certainly not worth doing well. — Carol Deppe

Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. — Jeannette Walls

When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will join thy soul, and then thou wilt have twin hells, thy soul sweating drops of blood, and thy body suffused with agony. In fire exactly like that which we have on earth thy body will lie, asbestos-like, forever unconsumed, all they veins roads for the feet of pain to travel on, every nerve a string on which the devil shall forever play his diabolical tune of 'Hell's Unutterable Lament'. — Charles Spurgeon

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. — Quentin Crisp

Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer — Ronnie James Dio