As bearable as Bonhoeffer‘s prison situation was, compared with that endured by other opponents of the Hitler regime, he longed for freedom like every other prisoner, He wanted to the married and live together with his wife. He wanted a child. Often he had to to force himself to stop thinking about these things, because otherwise his four walls would have been unendurable for him. But Bonhoeffer was accustomed to disciplined himself.
(Ferdinand Schlingensiepen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945: Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance, 345).
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