Aging Quote by John Ashbery

We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.

— Paulo Coelho

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

— Clarence Darrow

We are all prisoners of our past to some extent.

— Paul Whitehouse

“The vilest deeds like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison-air; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there: Pale…

— Oscar Wilde

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

— David Henry Hwang

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

— Wendell Berry

Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we…

— Frederick Lenz

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in…

— Barack Obama

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

— Mahmoud Darwish

“We live in a time of era where there is no value for innocence. People don’t worth the innocence. And innocent people remain the…

— Salman Aziz

“No, we're not prisoners of flesh, I think, bound in our skins, and only waiting for the final judgment that will send us into…

— Hal Duncan

We are all prisoners of the ideas of the times we live in.

— Svetlana Alexievich