Nick Yarris Quotes:
Death row saved my life. It taught me everything is a luxury to be treasured.
Nick Yarris
Everyone seems to be rushing through their lives, wishing they had just two minutes to do all the things they want to get gone.
Nick Yarris
For more than 20 years my identity was bonded with those people on death row, I cared about them.
Nick Yarris
Here’s the crazy thing: if I was guilty I would be entitled to job training, housing, medical treatment. But I have nothing. I was released with five dollars and 37 cents of my own money.
Nick Yarris
I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.
Nick Yarris
I circumnavigated the globe while I was sitting in a prison. It was wonderful because I kept defeating those walls they put around me.
Nick Yarris
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I didn’t mind the 23 hours a day solitary confinement for the majority of the time, because after the first few years in prison, when I stopped being angry and started to like myself and understand myself, it was OK. I still enjoy my own company sometimes.
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I genuinely believe that being on death row for 22 years ultimately saved my life. It was the greatest adventure of my life, and I survived it.
Nick Yarris
I had an enormous responsibility not just to survive but to become a good man because I had all of my family’s hopes on my shoulders because they walked around outside without the shield that I carried knowing I hadn’t done anything.
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I have nothing negative to say because what happened to me has happened to many others and I need to always remember that it was not personal what happened to me.
Nick Yarris
I lived around the man who was the model for Buffalo Bill in the movie ‘Silence of the Lambs.’
Nick Yarris
I realised no one else was going to care about me so I started to be nice to myself.
Nick Yarris
I taught myself German and psychology. Learning about psychology really helped me understand myself and the others around me and it helped keep me sane.
Nick Yarris
I used music and reading to erase my world, so basically I read for up to 16 hours a day for 23 years.
Nick Yarris
I used to dream about being able to sit at a table with another human being, have a normal conversation, and have a meal with normal cutlery, and have normal moments.
Nick Yarris
I was 20 when I was sentenced to death. My life had been on a one-way path to self-destruction for years. I don’t remember too much about my early life, but I think I had a happy childhood, growing up in Philadelphia in a loving family with five siblings.
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If you torture a man as I was tortured he will learn more about love than you could ever imagine, and that has left me vulnerable.
Nick Yarris
In death row every rule in society is flipped.
Nick Yarris
It is a strange thing that true crime has now got entertainment value. I don’t know why people love shows about crime so much.
Nick Yarris
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