Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear — Aung San Suu Kyi
The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible distances between galaxies… — Catherine Fisher
Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low… — Neil Gaiman
No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing,… — William Shakespeare
Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun! — Rick Riordan
In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated… — Michel Foucault
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred… — Nelson Mandela
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others… — Simone de Beauvoir
We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers. — Deb Caletti
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

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