Captivated Quote by Ibn Taymiyyah

Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.

— Ibn Taymiyyah

There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is no prison…

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“There are many, many ways to be imprisoned. You don’t need fences, handcuffs, chains, or steel bars. Your heart or your own mind can…

— Cary Allen Stone

“The suffering of being imprisoned rests in the fact that it is impossible, at any time, to escape from oneself.”

— Kōbō Abe

How many of us would be able to overcome our desires and resist the temptation of sin? How many of us even lower our…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and…

— Henry Miller

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

— Rumi

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions.…

— Buddha

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you…

— Jim Morrison

We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.

— James C. Collins

“There is no one who does not feel that he is imprisoned in some way. If this is the result of his own free…

— Foundation for Inner Peace

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

— C. S. Lewis