Men in Prison Quotes

“Men used to live in caves. Its not so long since they burned heretics at the stake. Everything ends sometime. Prison will end someday. But men remain, men move on. The old structure is cracking. Perhaps only one good blow is needed before everything changes. It's worth living for, and maybe even dying for. When there is enough bread for everybody, no one will steal any more. When women no longer sell themselves, when reason prevails, there will be fewer vices and fewer murders. Prison will be destroyed. People will come and stare at the stones that are left, and they won't be able to imagine what we are living through. They won't be able to conceive of our misery any more than we can conceive of their grandeur. Life will become large and free. It will...”
― Victor Serge, Men in Prison

“Nothing is more disappointing than the long-awaited fulfillment of a wish: for the reality itself is too concrete and brings with it a certain calm. The exaltation on which one was living disappears, leaving in its place a great void in which things only appear as they are, nothing more.”
― Victor Serge, Men in Prison