Imprisoned Quotes

208 quotes by 175 authors

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand… — Nelson Mandela
We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth… — Mervyn Peake
Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided… — Terry Pratchett
My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people -… — Dodie Smith
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that… — Bertrand Russell
...they told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver's mind, not in the object; they told… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all.… — S.M. Stirling
Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it… — David Sedaris
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see… — John Fowles
Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and… — Robert Graves
She seemed imprisoned in her sadness. — Sena Jeter Naslund
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate… — Walter Benjamin
Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that… — Jack Kerouac
Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief… — Karen Marie Moning
she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
The Master said of Gong Yechang, â€œHe is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of… — Confucius
If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be… — John Ortberg
[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be… — T.H. White
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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