Prison Quotes · Page 24

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

— Ayn Rand

I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.

— Rumi

“On the cool stone floor of their prison, Samheed and Lani huddled together to try to sleep.”

— Lisa McMann

'The greatest prison that people live in is the FEAR of what other people think of THEM!

— Andrew Guzaldo

I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.

— Frank Morgan

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

— Anonymous

“All corners else o' th' earth Let liberty make use of- space enough Have I in such a prison.”

— Shakespeare's Globe

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

— Daryl Gates

Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become…

— Ja Rule

“If I could slam the door, I would. If I could walk to another room, I would. The best I can do…

— T.J. Forrester

“Back when I was a callow youth, if I had known how miserable the hours would be working for the CIA, I…

— Stephen Coonts

The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As…

— Jacque Fresco

I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time…

— Taylor Schilling

“didn’t worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He did not awake in prison…

— Neil Gaiman

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

— Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison,…

— William Gurnall

I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I…

— Tullian Tchividjian

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out…

— Michael Vick

The religious philosophy that they had adopted, in my opinion, was the only thing and is the only thing that can remove…

— Malcolm X

When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime,…

— Uzo Aduba

I loved WWE , but in the end, I was unhappy. It was just like planning an escape from a maximum security…

— Cody Rhodes

“How do you survive for years in prison? You don’t think about years, or months, or weeks. You think about today—how to…

— John Grisham

I find it weird that people who claim to speak for the prisoners basically want to keep them in cages all the…

— Peter Moskos

What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that…

— Jacob Needleman

The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.

— Warren W. Wiersbe

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

— George Sand

“When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.”

— Stephen King

“We’re not exactly heavenly angels. More like prison inmates with wings.”

— Keri Lake

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

— Anonymous

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

— Robin Hobb

He could'nt get laid in a womens prison with a hand full of pardons.

— Unknow

If your heart was a prison I would like to be sentence for life

— Musa Ngoqwana

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

— Samuel Rutherford

America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of...

— Henry Rollins

My biggest fear growing up was that I would end up in prison. That was the fate of growing numbers of my…

— David Lammy

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

— Ava DuVernay

“The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.”

— Angela Y. Davis

“She was just released from prison and forgot what a man felt like.”

— Bella Jeanisse

All of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison.

— Anonymous

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

— Christian Hosoi