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The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time.
Only the man who has known freedom
Can define his prison.
Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.
This is not my prison. I carry it with me. We devise cages of our own choosing.
Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.
i was a prisoner of events
Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
In order to escape from this prison, one must learn not to come to an arrangement with its indisputable comforts.
any place you don't want to be is a prison.
Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.
There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.
People imprison themselves.
Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.
wherever a man is against his will, that to him is a prison.
We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
From here I can say that I am Prisoner... where!?
Prisoner in school... with this new system you are prison... so my number is 2442 and what's yours?
There are many, many ways to be imprisoned. You don't need fences, handcuffs, chains, or steel bars. Your heart or your own mind can imprison you within yourself. Another human being can imprison you with their actions and thoughts.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about it.
Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.
This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.
There he dwelt, a prisoner acting like a kind.
In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.
Never be a good prisoner. Not unless you want to collude in your own imprisonment.
Yes, I am a prisoner of sorts, but my prison isn't the house. It's my own thoughts that lock me up!
Any place you don't want to stay becomes your prison! That's why there are many prisoners all around the world who look like free men!
Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.
Friends, whoe'er ye be that are immured in that prison, forgive me that, to my misfortune and yours, I cannot deliver you from your misery;
So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!
These people did not give me to eat, they did not give me to drink, I lay naked in prison and they did not visit me,
Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.
I need a prison in order to dream of being free.
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner
I am in a cage. I desire to be set free.
We're all captives, in one way or another . . .
It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.
In war everybody is a prisoner.
Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.
I had been shackled, a prisoner in my own mind
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.
Has every line inside of you been crossed? Is there anything left unviolated? Are you so comfortable with your imprisonment you feel free?
My prison may be my only sanctuary.
When you live outside prison walls, it may seem like life inside has a romanticized veneer on it, like you're watching a movie or reading a novel. When you live it, the veneer comes off.
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.
She's so caught up she's unaware she's no longer the prisoner here, I am
How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.
If you cannot escape your prison, then you might as well imagine that you're free.
There used to be places called prisons before the Epiphany, where the demerited were restrained against their will."
"It sounds hideously barbaric"
"Prisons are still with us; only the walls are constructed of fear, taboo and the unknown.
Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
If you are deeply connected with yourself, with your energy, staying awake to yourself in the moment, other prisoners tend to leave you alone.
You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.
And freedom? Oh, freedom.
Well that's just some people talking.
Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
I feel always that I am a prisoner.
He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.
Like Ariel released from his tree prison, a beautiful human being leaps out of many a human prison at the touch of sympathy .
I was in chemical jail.
Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.
In truth the prison unto which we doom ourselves no prison is
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
Here is a fact for you: Your prison is made by yourself!
Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.
Your room is not your prison. You are.
There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.
She'd been living in a prison since the day she'd been born, even after leaving her mother, a prison of fear and shame and lowered expectations, and she'd been so accustomed to her circumscribed life that she had not recognized the bars.
They locked me up with a boy. A boy . Dear god. They're trying to kill me. They've done it one purpose. To torture me, to torment me, to keep me from sleeping through the night ever again.
I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But I endured my hardships because I was merely living my convictions.
You are in a prison with no bars. I worry about you.
Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately defines our relationship among ourselves.
When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.
The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.
One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the world moves on.
Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the outside ... but there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that.
He was looking through the eyes of the prisoner.
What good are prisoners? I much prefer devoted slaves.
When you enter a lake and when the nature wraps you up tightly never letting you go out, you will be the happiest prisoner on earth!
Everyone is someone's captive. The trick is knowing whose.
Author is the prisoner of his thoughts .
It's a lie that the body is a prison! It's the mind, I tell you! - always the cold, strong mind that's jailer.
That's what it's like to be a prisoner of anything. You want your freedom until you get it,
then you feel bare without your chains.
When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull
Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.
I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.
We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.
The terror of a child in prison is quite limitless
the wizard prison,
PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.
I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
Prison... it changes you. I'm not the same man I was before going on the inside. I can't go back. I won't." "You were in prison less than twenty-minutes.