Prison Quotes

1427 quotes by 977 authors

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape. — William S. Burroughs
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you… — Malcolm Gladwell
I am happy in my prison of passion — Oscar Wilde
You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have… — Henry Rollins
God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins,… — Clarence Jordan
But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall… — Khalil Gibran
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard… — Natsuo Kirino
There are worse prisons than words. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My thoughts took frantic flight, wanting to escape this prison, and seek out the wind so it could fan my hair and sting my skin,… — Virginia C. Andrews
Too bad the freedom seemed like a prison. As his boots hit the mosaic floor at the bottom of the stairs, John Mellencamp's old-school, bic-lighter… — J R Ward
We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison. — J. B. Priestley
These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on… — Ian Mcewan
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain… — George Bernard Shaw
Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar.… — Jodi Picoult
A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction. — Margaret Atwood
You are in a prison with no bars. I worry about you. — J R Ward
Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God. — Ian Fleming
The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release. — Joyce Meyer
Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them. — John Grisham

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