593 Quotes About Prison

Our prism can become our prison

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design.""You say this as if you envied him.""There are worse prisons than words.

New prisoners are largely of two kinds -- there are those who for shame, fear or shock wait in fascinated horror to be initiated into the lore of prison life, and there are those who trade on their wretched novelty in order to endear themselves to the community. Leamas did neither of these things. He seemed pleased to despise them all, and they hated him because, like the world outside, he did not need them.

Naître à Cuba a consisté à ressembler à cette absence du monde à laquelle nous nous soumettons. Je n'ai pas appris à utiliser une carte de crédit, les distributeurs automatiques ne me répondent pas. Une correspondance entre deux avions, d'un pays à l'autre, peut me faire perdre le contrôle, me disloquer, me couper le souffle. Dehors, je me sens en danger, dedans, je me sens confortablement prisonnière.

Entrepreneurs start projects to free their time only to create a prison of time.

Prison is a frame of thought, we’re all our own prisons, were each our own wardens and we do our own time. See prison in your mind, can’t you see I’m free?

Prison is a frame of thought, we’re all our own prisons, were each our own wardens and we do our own time. See prison is in your mind, can’t you see I’m free?