Prison Quotes

1427 quotes by 949 authors

Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to… — Ram Dass
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent. — Daniel Defoe
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. — Karl Kraus
In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more… — John McCain
The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing… — John O'Donohue
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever… — Malcolm X
In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who donâ€™t or wonâ€™t or canâ€™t and… — Stephen King
For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That… — Oscar Wilde
I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God. — John Bunyan
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open? — Unknown Author
Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time. — May Sarton
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what… — Alan Alda
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to… — Bell Hooks
I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now… — Alex Haley
Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed. — David Brin
I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against… — Scott Westerfeld
She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison,… — Pat Conroy
A prison becomes a home when you have the key. — George Sterling
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind… — Albert Einstein
This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day… — Zadie Smith

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