Awakening Quote by Kevin L. Michel

“The prisoner, having reached the depth of his depression, gradually reawakens to the life around him. He licks himself and his wounded pride, opens…

— P. H. Newman

“My eyes have adjusted to the colorlessness of living in a country like this But brutal to give the prisoner a window And every…

— Abeer Abdullah

“Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“There is the image of the man who imagines himself to be a prisoner in a cell. He stands at one end of this…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“THOUGHTS AND REALITY You’ve probably heard of Plato’s allegory of the cave. It’s a story narrated by Socrates in Plato’s Republic, a long work…

— Tanya J. Peterson

“In The Republic, Plato imagines human beings chained for the duration of their lives in an underground cave, knowing nothing but darkness. Their gaze…

— Chris Hedges

“The shades of the prison house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“We are trapped here up on this wall by an evil beyond comprehension. It is here that we are damned to remain for all…

— Nathalie M. Leblanc

“in this dangerous time when shadows cast shadows of their own, when darkness often passed for light, the just and the unjust wore the…

— Dean Koontz

“if I've learned anything through all this, it's that you can't build walls around the people you care about. You can't do it to…

— Kay Hooper

“His gaze, blunted by the unnumbered procession of iron bars, uncounted as his softly padded steps. Smooth motion of blood and sinew turning in…

— Rilke Rainer Maria

“The mind does not need four walls to make you its prisoner.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo