Sentenced Quotes

“To be sentenced to jail because of your faith in God is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society”

“The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.”

“For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror.”

“Some fail to bear in mind that everyone is sentenced to death. Death is a treacherous virus that strikes randomly. The only truth is that nobody is going to make it out alive. We are all living on probation and our expiry date is indefinite. ( “Living on probation” )”

“The historical record contradicts the assumption that the Nazis sentenced large numbers of people to death during World War II for telling jokes. In the final phase of the Third Reich, some cases did receive capital sentences, but they were extreme exceptions to the rule. (We will return to them later.) The compilations of jokes that circulated in Germany after the war bore titles like Deadly Laughter and When Laughter Was Dangerous, but there is not much evidence that the jokes they contained were inevitably risky for the teller.”

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”

“To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.”

“We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.”

“I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”