Cells Quote by Megan Whalen Turner

“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

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”

— Jalaluddin Rumi

“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

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner…

— George Bernard Shaw

“This man, of a nature too humane for his situation, was become wretched in it, and he determined mined to escape from his office…

— Ann Radcliffe

“They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!”

— Agatha Christie

“The hours I would spend in the prison visiting room were among the most comforting of my life. They sped by, the only occasion…

— Piper Kerman

“Prison is the easiest way out for authority, as locks and keys are the warden's simplest tools. It does not require strong imagination or…

— Lewis E. Lawes

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

— Yael Stone

“Now picture that one day, a single prisoner is somehow freed … The familiar wall with its comforting shadows suddenly feels safer and saner than…

— Kevin L. Michel

“Apparently he took apart the whole prison and rebuilt it upside down without anybody noticing – until he escaped and it was too late.”

— Richard Clark

“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