Free Prison Quotes

#1. What if thought is not free? What if memory is a prison, society a lie? Sometimes I look around and all I hear is screaming, screaming, screaming - what if you are the enlightened one?

Claire North

#2. When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.

Zack Snyder

#3. I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

Bobby Fischer

#4. this free-man's prison known as life.

Vanessa Ronan

#5. Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.

Elie Wiesel

#6. The Indian ... stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Fear is a prison in which we place ourselves. You need only to press against the bars to realize that the door is always unlocked, and you are always free to leave.

Luna DeMasi

#8. The biggest hindrance in life is to live for other people and crave for their approval. This kind of behaviour diminishes your God given purpose and it leads you to live a barren life. Free yourself from the prison of pretence and live a purposeful lifestyle.

Euginia Herlihy

#9. Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees away like a prisoner whose guard has fallen asleep, leaving the keys at the prison gate.

Gerard De Nerval

#10. During the interim, no matter how much agony the man may feel, he also experiences excitement, the excitement of learning how to cope with a closed society that reflects free society as a funhouse mirror reflects the human form: everything is there, but distorted.

Edward Bunker

#11. An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.

Randy Alcorn

#12. Errors should free you from the prison of your ignorance rather than shackle you to your lowest moments.

Robert A. Giacalone

#13. Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Johnnie Cochran

#14. Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you are no longer in prison; you are standing under the starry night, completely free. But where do you go?

Rajneesh

#15. If you cannot escape your prison, then you might as well imagine that you're free.

Stefan Molyneux

#16. I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should
be free, and see his family and friends once more.

Harriet Tubman

#17. Love will make the beloved more & more free, love will give wings and love will open the vast sky. It cannot becomes a prison & enclosure. But the quality of love comes only when there is awareness.

Osho

#18. I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.

Bat For Lashes

#19. Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

Debbie Ford

#20. 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.

William Powell

#21. Not every one of us are born or made free of our own prisons to the extent of ourselves.

M.F. Moonzajer

#22. I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.

Inez Haynes Irwin

#23. Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison.

Debasish Mridha

#25. I thought I was having a fucking stroke," I say as they free me from my coated elastic prison, making them laugh even harder.

Trish Doller

#26. In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.

Nelson Mandela

#27. We are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs.

Debasish Mridha

#28. ...Rejoice for a comrade deceased,
Our loss is his infinite gain,
A soul out of prison released,
And free from its bodily chain."
~Smokey Lonesome

Fannie Flagg

#29. Freedom begins when each individual mind dares to liberate itself from the prison it created. We are free when the war in our heads is over.

Miguel Ruiz

#30. The victim of mind-manipulati on does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free

Aldous Huxley

#31. John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying.

Paul Galanti

#32. I guess Satan was the first superhero [ ... ] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.

Joe Hill

#33. Prison is a process, a succession of imprisonments. At first it operates only on a physical level, restricting your movement. Later, it extends to the psychological plane, encompassing your very perception. You come to exclude all thoughts, all visions of the free world.

Norman Parker

#34. Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

Johnny Cash

#35. It is very difficult to break free from the prison of conformity and fixed false beliefs without changing our level of consciousness and awareness.

Debasish Mridha

#36. Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

Cheri Huber

#37. We care (about prison education), very simply, because (prisoners) get out. Almost everyone who is locked up now is going to be set free one day. If we treat prisoners like animals the whole time they are locked up, that's what we'll get when they're back on the streets: wild, dangerous animals.

Christopher Zoukis

#38. A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

Albert Einstein

#39. I refuse to stay a prisoner to my body. I am going to free myself.

Leigh Hershkovich

#40. A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich or even in prison? To Dostoyevsky! To Gogol!

Barbara Kingsolver

#41. Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

Trevor Phillips

#42. People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.

Vaclav Havel

#43. I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it.

Kayla Mueller

#44. Be free, not from a prison, but from yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#45. I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

Graham Sutherland

#46. You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking around with lots of credit cards and be in a prison, the prison of your own mind, the prison of your illusions.

Frederick Lenz

#47. I supposed images of an evil god who wanted to break free of his mythological prison and enslave the whole world
weren't any scarier than a guy wearing big red shoes,yellow plaid pants,and white face paint.Clowns had always creeped me out. They were so not funny.

Jennifer Estep

#48. You had to be free in your heart. Guilt, fear, anger - they were all their own kinds of prison. You could be out in the world and still be doing time.

Ronald Cotton

#49. You did it! You are free!!!!!!!!

Paige Garland

#50. The writer's job is to free language from the prison of ideas.

Marty Rubin

#51. Nobody is free ... Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

Ted Simon

#52. She was free in her prison of passion.

Oscar Wilde

#53. She closed her hands around his and shut her eyes, imagining their bed cut free of this strange prison, floating through space or on the surface of the ocean, just the two of them alone.

Cassandra Clare

#54. I need a prison in order to dream of being free.

John Popper

#55. Gandhiji was not born in freedom. All his life, except for a few months. lay within the framework of colonial rule. A good part of that life lay buried in prison cells. Yet he was always the free man, while those who held him imprisoned were the unfree ones.

Bhabani Bhattacharya

#56. People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

William Deresiewicz

#57. I don't think anyone is free

Graham Sutherland

#58. Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I'm on parole, that I'm not really free.

Jennifer Lane

#59. A slave will amuse himself in his dungeon; a free man must file through his chains and dig through his prison-walls before he can frolic.

George MacDonald

#60. I didn't know I was in a prison until I was told I could go no further than where I am. It was in that moment that I determined to free myself. I am becoming much greater than I am today. I need the belief to grow.

LaShawnda Jones

#61. I'd volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

Mohammad Hatta

#62. 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!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#63. Fear is a prison where you are the jailer. Free yourself!

Bryant McGill

#64. When a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it.

Nicholas Sparks

#65. During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.

Tahir Shah

#66. Be free! Get out of your prison of conforming thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#67. Slavery is impossible without the consent of the slave. Fear imprisons the mind, Faith. You either accept this prison by following the rules made by others. Or you break free, by making your own.

Christofer Emgard

#68. You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#69. A message of consolation to Greek brothers in their prison camps, and to my Haitian brothers and Nicaraguan brothers and Dominican brothers and South African brothers and Spanish brothers and to my brothers in South Vietnam, all in their prison camps: You are in the free world!

E.L. Doctorow

#70. When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

Henry David Thoreau

#71. Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden of prison that I created in which I myself am the prisoner?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#72. I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.

Ronald Biggs

#73. Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface - from the prison of vanity and youur own looks - and sets you free to embrace the soul within.

Soman Chainani

#74. The black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#75. She shocked me. Truly rocked the ground beneath my feet. Made the air shimmer with her power and grace. The woman had slipped free the prison of rules that governed us all and met me halfway to paradise.

Robin Maxwell

#76. You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

Edward Snowden

#77. A man's spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities

Jeremy Aldana

#78. A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery.

Steve Maraboli

#79. Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

Madeleine L'Engle

#80. We're all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I can't judge anyone else. What other people do is not really my affair unless they approach me with it. Prison's in your mind. Can't you see I'm free?

Charles Manson

#81. {...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.

Andrea Bouchaud

#82. THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE, LIES WILL PUT YOU INTO PRISON

Nelson M. Lubao

#83. I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

Suge Knight

#84. I wouldn't be satisfied simply escaping from my prison of silence; I was planning to escape, free the other inmates, shoot the warden, and burn down the prison. Sometimes I get that way. It's a surprisingly useful frame of mind.

Scott Adams

#85. One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

Plato

#86. As Mike Roberts watched Tommy enter the building, he could not imagine that the boy was taking his last steps in the free world. The rest of his life would be behind prison walls.

John Grisham

#87. I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

Pitbull

#88. A real prison breakfast" I said.
"Yeah, but we are free."
And that summed it up.

Patti Smith

#89. Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

Khalil Gibran

#90. You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!

Kahlil Gibran

#91. Sometimes God will take you to a prison to set you free.

Sheila Walsh

#92. 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.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#93. I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

Christian Hosoi

#94. Over months of being with him, my prison had become my sanctuary, and now that I was free, the world was my prison. There was nowhere left to run.

Kitty Thomas

#95. However, if we don't confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we become bound to the "prison cell" that those lies create.

E'yen A. Gardner

#96. The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.

Mark Haskell Smith

#97. Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.

Azzedine Alaia

#98. They say 'stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage'. It was a quotation I knew as a boy. I had made it my own back then. I knew they couldn't capture my mind. Whilst I could still think, I was free.

Denis Avey