Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough… — Albert Camus
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion — Dan Simmons
There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of… — Daniel Quinn
Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures… — Jane Goodall
Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and… — Susanna Kaysen
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not… — B R Ambedkar
That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...] — Lucy Maud Montgomery
He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison. — Catherine Fisher
I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held… — Joe Hill
We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter crime… — Michelle Alexander
We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to… — Lauren Oliver
When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a… — Khalil Gibran
Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in… — Elie Wiesel
My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing. — Sylvia Plath
Now, now, hear me out," Hamish went on. "We don't have to kidnap Garrett. Not if we kidnap the buyer." "Or distract him," Angus added.… — Ally Carter
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?… — Unknown Author
You expect me to believe that you're being held against your will?" I raised a skeptical eyebrow. "You're roaming around the castle freely." "As are… — Amanda Hocking
Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under… — Jon Krakauer
Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to… — Tara Brach
I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that same sense of… — Marie Lu
Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself. — Sylvia Plath

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