Jack Henry Abbott

Born :21 January 1944

Tribute :10 February 2002

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Jack Henry Abbott born on 21th January 1944, and passed away on 10th February 2002, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire generations. Over the past 58 years, we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 18 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in american and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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Quotes of Jack Henry Abbott

Timeless words and powerful thoughts from Jack Henry Abbott - discover the wisdom, inspiration, and voice behind the quotes that continue to resonate

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.