Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep. — Albert Camus
Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better… — Eugene V. Debs
Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be… — Terry Pratchett
Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live. — Jack Kerouac
What are you doing here?” [ndr prison] Selling Girl Scout cookies,” I said. “Want some? The Samoas are terrific.” (Max II to Max) — James Patterson
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their… — Haruki Murakami
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp… — W. S. Gilbert
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. — Malcolm X
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.… — Bertrand Russell
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison. — M. John Harrison
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at… — Isaac Babel
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. — Orson Scott Card
It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding… — Albert Einstein
The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize… — Henry Miller
Prison is like high school with knives. — Raegan Butcher
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a… — Anna Akhmatova
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing… — Daniil Kharms
That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell… — Megan Whalen Turner
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse… — Wystan Hugh Auden
For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire. — Unknown Author
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. — Alberto Manguel
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars;… — Andre Malraux
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing. — Anais Nin
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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