Mental Prison Quotes

#1. I think, tribalism is a mental prison ... and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the leading factors that limit one's ability to abandon it.

Duop Chak Wuol

#2. Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.

Steve Maraboli

#3. I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity

Grant Morrison

#4. Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

Nancy Hale

#5. You told me you wanted time. I've given it to you, and I'll give you as long as you need, McKenzie. I love you." He tucks a lock of my hair behind my ear. "You're worth waiting a decade for.

Sandy Williams

#6. No matter how great an achievement you had a year ago, no matter how momentous and critically acclaimed it was, it is still in the past and has no real bearing on the present moment.

Chris Matakas

#7. Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population.

Bryan Stevenson

#8. I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.

Sydney Smith

#9. Faking mental illness to get out of a prison sentence, he explained, is exactly the kind of deceitful and manipulative act you'd expect of a psychopath.

Jon Ronson

#10. She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.

Joyce Rachelle

#11. The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

George Washington

#12. A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions

Hillary Clinton

#14. Time itself is a creation of the restless mind; space has been created by the same mind to give itself room to wander when in fact there is no space beyond a mental construct that, like all constructs, eventually turns into a prison.

Alan W. Watts

#15. Terry recalled far better days when she'd risen bright and early every morning.... Days before darkness had closed in and refused to leave....

Dawn M. Turner

#16. Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.

Steven Magee

#17. Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

Jamie Fellner

#18. Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

Bobby Scott

#19. People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

Hill Harper

#20. I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.

Scott Westerfeld

#21. How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?

Marlee Matlin

#22. I have not been recognized.

Michael Dorn

#23. I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind.

Gene Tierney

#24. Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

Os Guinness

#25. Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.

Tariq Ramadan

#26. 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.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#27. Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Cesare Pavese