Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by unique 949 authors

It was a land of shadows and ice. Of gray. And grayer. And black. -The Unseelie prison of Aedan — Karen Marie Moning
Back to prison. Maybe if you fake a heart attack, I can make a break for it. (Rose Hathaway says to Lissa Dragomir) — Richelle Mead
In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key. — Laurell K. Hamilton
If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture?… — Bill Hicks
We made it,' he shouted. 'Not bad for a prison break, eh?' 'Good thinking Jake. — Stephenie Meyer
The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That… — Maggie Stiefvater
He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people...… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for… — Terry Pratchett
That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. Youâ€™re both in the same room, yet… — Cecelia Ahern
When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free. — Zack Snyder
I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I… — Megan Whalen Turner
In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison. — Theodor Adorno
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a… — David Sedaris
Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman. — Scott Lynch
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. — Nadine Gordimer
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body — Michel Foucault
Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new… — Albert Camus

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