Death Row Prisoners

Famous quotes containing the words death, row and/or prisoners:

    “There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship—only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.”
    —Erica Jong (b. 1942)

    “all afternoon
    Their witless offspring flock like piped rats to its siren
    Crescendo, and agape on the crumbling ridge
    Stand in a row and learn.”
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    “I never saw a man who looked
    With such a wistful eye
    Upon that little tent of blue
    Which prisoners call the sky.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)