Top 31 Mind Is A Prison Quotes
#1. This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the mind as us, we are identified with it. This death of mind never happens to us, it never occurs to us.
Rajneesh
#3. Tradition is the prison where change is detained ... To make a change, you need to agree that you are not going with the statement "this is how we do it"! Yes, that was how it was done, but what next? Agree to change!
Israelmore Ayivor
#4. 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
#5. The prison that exists in a man's mind is far more difficult to escape from than anything built with brick walls and steel doors. For it is the fear of freedom that holds you inside ...
Anirban Bose
#6. I'm Galileo in prison. I'm a supercomputer in a junkyard. I'm being wasted, Irene. This town is killing me by inches, turning my mind to mush.
Eva Morgan
#7. My head is a prison I've been locked in from the start,
So if I'm treated like a criminal I might as well play the part.
(attrib: E. Tancarville)
Dan Garfat-Pratt
#8. Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.
Tom Lantos
#9. See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God.
Your rhyme is like an empty prison ... a waste of bars.
Lord Finesse
#10. 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
#11. Form is burden. Sometimes being part of the system enslaves the mind and greatly limits the imagination by enslaving it to form. Form is a burden to the mind that sees no limits. Form is a prison for the soul who sees possibilities outside the lines and wishes to test them.
Suzy Kassem
#12. When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.
Zack Snyder
#13. To know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. from Pavilion of Women page 292
Pearl S. Buck
#14. I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Gene Tierney
#15. I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thought, so the dementors couldn't suck it out of me...but it kept me sane and knowing who I am...helped me keep my powers...
J.K. Rowling
#16. 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.
Josephine W. Johnson
#17. Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#18. A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone Weil
#19. We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.
Albert Einstein
#20. 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
#21. An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#22. 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.
Nelson Mandela
#23. Working in a prison, is, to my mind, similar in ways to working in a coal mine. It's going to scare away a lot of people.
Jennifer Haigh
#24. 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
#26. 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
#28. Healing is a deeply private process and, honestly, you're not welcome to be a part of it. But you will have given me a short furlough from the dark, sorry prison of my mind, and that gift, precious in its own right, is really the best you can hope to offer.
Jonathan Tropper
#29. A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.
Clarence Darrow
#30. A mind of one logic is the mind of a prison.
Lionel Suggs
#31. I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind.
Gene Tierney
