Quote by Mark Twain

“But who shall tell how many ages it seemed to this prisoner?”

— Mark Twain

“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

“What you took as yourself begins to look like a little prison-house far away in the valley beneath you.”

— G.I. Gurdjieff

“Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.”

— Dwight E. Abbott

“All three are hip-deep in midlife, when the eyes go and the waistline spreads and the city on the hill that shone so brightly…

— Mary McNamara

“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their…

— Anonymous

“The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that…

— Emily Brontë

“At first, the drudgery of mastering your craft is a prison—boring, slow, and with an awareness of how much time you’ll have to put…

— Jarod Kintz

“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

“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so in exorable as one's self!”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger…

— David Lynch

“The disorientation of meeting one’s sagging contemporaries, memories of a younger face crashing into the reality of jowls, under-eye pouches, unexpected lines, and then…

— Emily St. John Mandel