Prison Quotes

1427 quotes by 989 authors

My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I… — Susan Polis Schutz
For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me… — Bible
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his… — Bible
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place… — C.S. Lewis
One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond… — Bertrand Russell
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of… — Albert Einstein
People who claim that sentencing a murderer to life without the possibility of parole protects society just as well as the death penalty ignore three… — Thomas Sowell
The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity — John Sullivan Dwight
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
It's not the people who are in prison worry me. It's the people who aren't. — Arthur Gore
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a… — Jack Henry Abbott
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. — Jack Henry Abbott
The world is not a prison house but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the… — Edwin Arlington Robinson
Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exemplary prison matron, possibly at Buchenwald. She… — Harriet Van Horne
If, someday, we all go to prison for downloading music; I hope they separate us by genres. — Orebela Gbenga
Facebook is kind of like prison. You spend all day staring at walls and getting poked by people you dont know. — Orebela Gbenga
I have been meaning to tell you! I been watching you, I notice every time I see you how beautiful you are, your smile, your… — Glen Rambharack
The biggest prison you will likely ever live in is your fear of what other people think. — Suman Rai
Your love has changed me in ways that I had never thought possible. Staying away from you is like going to prison. Come back soon… — Superman
Freeing yourself through forgiveness is like freeing yourself from chains of bondage or from prison. — Senoraroy

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