Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then… — Nelson Mandela
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort… — Ludwig von Mises
It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves… — Byron Katie
I feel like I’m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can’t visit relatives, can’t… — Candy Darling
The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you… — Jacque Fresco
Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also strengthens… — Eckhart Tolle
It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum. — Paul Hawken
We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key. — Iyanla Vanzant
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can… — Nelson Mandela
... the Lord Jesus said, 'To those who are in bonds, Come out, and to those who are in prison, Go forth' (Isa. 49:9); so… — Ambrose
Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick or in prison.… — Richard Wurmbrand
We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are… — Albert Einstein
We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the… — Eckhart Tolle
Make not your thoughts your prisons. — William Shakespeare
Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts,… — Marlene Dietrich
Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace — Unknown Author
Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit… — Banksy
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. — Richard Lovelace
Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. — Unknown Author
In prison, illusions can offer comfort. — Nelson Mandela
Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason. — Eric Holder
Your room is not your prison. You are. — Sylvia Plath
Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls of… — Eric Burdon
Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long. — L. Ron Hubbard

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