Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It was like some horrible crime committed in a dungeon, all unseen and unheeded, buried out of sight and of memory.”

— Upton Sinclair

“The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

“I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he…

— Thomas Bernhard

“You can handcuff my wrists, and Shackle my feet. You can bind me in chains, throw me in your deepest darkest dungeon...but you can't…

— Jaye Swift

“Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything…

— Marisha Pessl

“..jailer is no man to a prisoner - he is a living door, a barrier of flesh and blood adding strength to restraints of…

— Alexandre Dumas

“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

“It was as good as sealing yourself into a dungeon. Walled in, with nowhere to go but your own doom.”

— Haruki Murakami

“We wind up in cells of our own making when we're not generous, loving, compassionate, and forgiving. Without love, we build dungeons in our…

— Martin Sheen

“Your mind is your playground or your prison, and you get to choose which one it will be.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

“Self is the only prison which can contain.”

— Henry Van Dyke