Top 82 Mind Prison Quotes
#1. Merry Christmas me bollocks. The words of the Pogues's 'Fairytale of New York' also came to mind: surrounded by scumbags and maggots, I prayed God it would be my last in Los Teques.
Paul Keany
#2. People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other people's ideas without feeling like they're being slapped in the face. Those people are more in a prison.
Kathleen Hanna
#4. 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
#6. The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.
Piri Thomas
#7. You can do almost anything if you put your mind to it. Be it the perfect murder, robbing a bank or owning your own company. I don't go along with Prince Charles' maxim that everyone should know their place and limitations.
Stephen Richards
#8. I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Gene Tierney
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#16. A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone Weil
#17. Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build
Talib Kweli
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.
Ja Rule
#22. She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich New Yorker then, or a Midwestern pioneer. She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how to escape the prison of her own mind, how to expand, and experience.
Penelope Lively
#23. Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#24. Don't sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?
Chang-rae Lee
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. As the child's mind was growing into knowledge, his mind was growing into memory: as her life unfolded, his soul, long stupefied in a cold, narrow prison, was unfolding too, and trembling gradually into full consciousness.
George Eliot
#30. His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more
Irvine Welsh
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.
Ram Dass
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God.
Your rhyme is like an empty prison ... a waste of bars.
Lord Finesse
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.
Zack Snyder
#40. She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.
Madeleine L'Engle
#41. 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
#42. The mind can be a prison or a prism...I choose the latter.
Paige Bleu
#43. 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
#44. To live in chaos was to live in a prison. Order freed the mind for other things.
Louise Penny
#45. Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Peter Ustinov
#46. A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.
Clarence Darrow
#47. Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#48. Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home.
Walter Farrell
#49. Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.
Toba Beta
#50. I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
Isadora Duncan
#51. Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.
Leonard Jacobson
#52. Useless labor, that I feared would stay in my mind, extending into me, into everything. On the occasion of both funerals I made plans ahead of time to visit Pasquale. In those years I did that whenever I could. In prison he had studied a lot, had received his high school diploma, and, recently, a
Elena Ferrante
#53. Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.
Ann Brashares
#54. Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.
Arthur Desmond
#55. A mind of one logic is the mind of a prison.
Lionel Suggs
#56. 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
#57. I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind.
Gene Tierney
#58. 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
#59. Yet why must grammar be like a prison for the mind? Might not language be as a closet full of gowns? Of a generally similar cut, with a hole for the head and neck to pass, but filled with difference and a variety of trimmings so that we don't grow bored?
Danielle Dutton
#60. Prison, a social protection? What monstrous mind ever conceived such an idea? Just as well say that health can be promoted by a widespread contagion!
Emma Goldman
#61. 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
#62. A mind that dwells in the past builds a prison it cannot escape. Control your mind, or it will control you, and you will never break through the walls it builds.
A.G. Riddle
#63. When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.
Elizabeth Fry
#64. 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
#65. The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. He had become her whole world,a way out of the prison of her own mind.
Lynn Matheson
#70. Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.
Tim Fargo
#71. We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.
Eckhart Tolle
#72. If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
John Locke
#73. India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
Mahatma Gandhi
#74. The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Elizabeth Drew
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. In three months Ron read more than he had in his entire previous life. He felt his mind widen, his perceptions become more acute, for each book was a prism refracting the infinitely varied truths of experience. Some were telescopes; some microscopes.
Edward Bunker
#78. 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
#79. Mind is prison of one's potential
which can be freed by his dreams.
Toba Beta
#81. 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
