Prisoner Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar Download Open image “Every invalid is a prisoner.” — Marguerite Yourcenar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Prisoner
“You will find that most prisons are forged in someone’s own mind. And they invariably possess the key to their release if they could… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
“9. Prisoners must genuinely repent of their errors. Anyone who does not acknowledge his sins and instead denies them or carries a deviant opinion… — Blaine Harden Copy Share Image
We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true. — Sekou Odinga Copy Share Image
Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul... — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“To eat fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected like us… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others.… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“ A amizade é, acima de tudo, certeza - é isso o que a distingue do amor.” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Quel bel levriero... si distese sulla mia vita (Memorie di Adriano, Saeculum Aureum)” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free. — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield,… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
“If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.” — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison — by the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image