Prisoned Quotes

#1. Well; I would rather die yonder than in a street, or on a frequented road, ' I reflected. 'And far better that crows and ravens -if any ravens there be in these regions- should pick my flesh from my bones, than that they should be prisoned in a work-house coffin, and moulder in a pauper's grave.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. But when a man has once broken through the paper walls of everyday circumstance, those unsubstantial walls that hold so many of us securely prisoned from the cradle to the grave, he has made a discovery. If the world does not please you, you can change it.

H.G.Wells

#3. Something soft and wild and free, something that whispered to the ear on the pillow, lightened the heart, softly, softly picked the lock, slid the bolts, and released the prisoned spirit of man into the wind, into the blue and gold, into the morning, into the morning!

Willa Cather

#4. Prisoned in glass beneath my seals of red.

Charles Baudelaire

#5. For in all she said, however open she seemed and voluptuous, there was something hidden; in all she did, however daring, there was something concealed. So the green flame seems hidden in the emerald, or the sun prisoned in a hill. The clearness was only outward; within was a wandering flame.

Virginia Woolf

#6. The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand ...

Oscar Wilde

#7. In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate both characters - he probably felt Leigh wasn't famous enough and he realized Leigh [Bowery] and I were associated.

Boy George

#9. Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

Honore De Balzac

#10. Everything in life is possible, so better focus on your future so that at the end you can grant a better life for all

K.C Mathobela

#11. Not everything needed to be brought into the light, he knew. Not every truth needed to be told.

Louise Penny

#12. Next to not living with those one loves, the worst torture is living with those one doesn't love.

Julian Barnes

#13. Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

Thom Mayne