Top 100 Prisoner Quotes
#1. Alp Arslan: "What would you do if I was brought before you as a prisoner?"
Romanos: "Perhaps I'd kill you, or exhibit you in the streets of Constantinople."
Alp Arslan: "My punishment is far heavier. I forgive you, and set you free.
Alp Arslan
#2. Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon ... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.
Winston Churchill
#3. Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.
Haruki Murakami
#4. In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains.
Amy Poehler
#5. We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
William Gurnall
#6. Would there be that subtle one-upmanship like there was between mothers? "It's so stressful having a gifted child." What would be the equivalent for a prison wife? "It's such a strain when your husband is a model prisoner! The others are constantly beating him up!
Liane Moriarty
#7. Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living.
Steven Redhead
#8. Charlotte's face paled. She was already scared as a prisoner of war. Now she knew where she had been taken. She was in the Draco Galaxy. The galaxy controlled by Dunge Katorsay. The leader of the intergalactic rebellion.
Kenneth S. Murray
#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. Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.
Sidney Sheldon
#11. Would anyone but a crazed bicephalous being, half engineer, half poet, willingly shackle himself to a venture of such magnitude? I am prisoner of my dream.
Philippe Petit
#12. Now I have discovered where it is that she goes. It's the guillotine that draws her, across the river in the Place Louis Quinze- Place de la Revolution now-where daily crowds gather, the vendors selling lemonade, the children playing prisoner's base, the old ladies gossiping as the heads fall.
Sandra Gulland
#13. It came to me with great force that I was wasting my life, that I was wasting it by living from day to day in a state of waiting, that I had in effect given myself up as a prisoner to this war.
J.M. Coetzee
#14. Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine ...
Jennifer Donnelly
#15. Hard to save anybody when you're locked up, when you're too busy trying to fight to save yourself. When you've made yourself a prisoner.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#16. I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.
Frederick Lenz
#17. I had been shackled, a prisoner in my own mind
Tahereh Mafi
#18. This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#19. He was beginning to understand how those ridiculous tales had made her a prisoner of others' expectations.
Tessa Dare
#20. In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds.
Nicki Elson
#21. We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.
Robin S. Sharma
#22. There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.
Diane Setterfield
#23. Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Deepak Chopra
#25. Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full of tricks, I was obliged to call up all my forces to lay hold of him, and make the subtle Being my prisoner.
Christian Friedrich Schonbein
#26. I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
Talib Kweli
#27. You're a girl. Someday you'll want to be a prisoner to someone other than yourself.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#28. I unscrewed my own scrap of paper and read out: "Help! I am prisoner in the tower.
Leonora Carrington
#29. They tell me that you have been crying in your sleep. Do not grieve our separation, my love, for our reunion will come just as swiftly.
-Letter from unknown prisoner, convicted of treason, to fiancee
Marie Lu
#30. It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.
Elizabeth Wein
#31. We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.
Muhammad Iqbal
#32. I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
W.G. Sebald
#34. Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I've called it the re-humanisation process.
Maajid Nawaz
#35. The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
William Shakespeare
#36. if Clinton was taken prisoner "it would be our misfortune, since the British government could not find another commander so incompetent to send in his place.
Ron Chernow
#38. Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify.
Peter Landesman
#39. I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.
Harry S. Truman
#40. It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.
Alice Miller
#41. My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.
Mason Cooley
#42. Had I ever truly been free? Though I wasn't shipped off to different countries did that make me any less of a prisoner?
Kay Harding
#43. The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.
Deepak Chopra
#44. I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.
Edwin Edwards
#46. If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].
King James I
#47. First doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. We must never allow doubt to hold us prisoner and keep us from the divine love, peace, and gifts that come through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#48. You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.
Louis C.K.
#49. The second ward was declared a temporary holding cell for their prisoner, the ba, who followed in the procession, bound to a float pallet. Miles scowled as the pallet drifted past, towed on its control lead by a watchful, muscular sergeant.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#50. She is a prisoner in the amber of her own past.
Anna Quindlen
#51. She tried to imagine her former self. Enemy. Prisoner. Friend? Daughter. Spy. Prisoner again. "What am I now?"
Sarsine held both of Kestrel's hands. "What ever you want to be.
Marie Rutkoski
#52. I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.
Michel Patini
#53. This soldier had been taken prisoner in some remote part of Asia, and was threatened with an immediate agonising death if he did not renounce Christianity and follow Islam. He refused to deny his faith, and was tortured, flayed alive, and died, praising and glorifying Christ.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#54. You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home in the United States. And we sent them some prisoners. The deal still has to be approved by President Obama and Bud Selig.
David Letterman
#55. I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me.
Heinrich Boll
#57. Are you being held prisoner right now, or are these bullies on our side?" "They're on our side." Iko
Marissa Meyer
#58. I felt ancient and exhausted. I felt like a prisoner within myself and as if I was just watching a movie that was playing before my eyes. I just wanted all of it to end and disappear; I wanted to disappear.
J.M. Northup
#59. Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Bob Marley
#60. It costs about the same to house a maximum-security young adult prisoner for a year as it does to send his law-abiding counterpart to Harvard.
Robert Martensen
#61. You have ten minutes. Tops. (Carlos)
I have been knocked overboard, shot at, kidnapped, handcuffed, terrified, and held prisoner. I will not be told how long to take in the loo. (Gabrielle)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#62. Black Dove, let's write. Let's work on a story. Let's work on Glassland."
"Make me a prisoner in the Fortress of Clarity."
"Got to rescue you.
Elizabeth Wein
#63. The prisoner of Auschwitz, in the first phase of shock, did not fear death. Even the gas chambers lost their horrors for him after the first few days - after all, they spared him the act of committing suicide.
Viktor E. Frankl
#64. What kind of rescue is this, where you toss the prisoner a knife and stand and wait to see what happens?
Orson Scott Card
#65. But who shall tell how many ages it seemed to this prisoner?
Mark Twain
#66. The prisoner of doubt ends his stint [through suicide], released to the custody of that final question mark which punctuates every life sentence.
Dan Garfat-Pratt
#67. It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.
Daniel Kehlmann
#68. You are not a prisoner of your thoughts. You have the ability to control what you are thinking.
Deepak Chopra
#69. We soon fall asleep in each other's arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage.
Fernando Lachica
#70. It doesn't really matter if I am a prisoner of your will so long as I am not a prisoner of mine. christopher dutton
Christopher Dutton
#71. Even a prison the size of a universe is still a prison. And it is every prisoner's duty to escape.
John C. Wright
#72. If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.
David Halberstam
#73. Then, were not summer's distillation left
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.
But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
William Shakespeare
#74. He can surround a sword with flames."
Freya sounded proud of him. That irritated Ena. He was her prisoner and only she had the right to feel proud of him as far as she was concerned.
Terry Spear
#75. The girl in the video is a reminder about how fragile our hold on sanity and health is and how much we are at the utter whim of our Brutus bodies, which will inevitably, on day, turn on us for good. I am a prisoner, as we all are. And with that realization comes an aching sense of vulnerability.
Susannah Cahalan
#76. Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
David Chase
#77. Love has an effect few other things have: to empower you with happiness, and at the same time, strip you of all power, making you a prisoner of fear.
Layla Hagen
#78. Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.
Dennis Allen
#79. We bury our seeds and wait,
Winter blocks the road,
Flowers are taken prisoner underground,
But then green justice tenders a spear
Rumi
#80. You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
Eric Cantona
#81. You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance
Rumi
#82. Lost in Static 18
And the storm is closing in now
Automatic 18 - Got to push through - Trapped in living hell
You're a prisoner of the dark sky
The propeller blades are still
And the evil eye of the hurricane's
Coming in now for the kill
Mike Oldfield
#83. You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you are a prisoner of the present, forever locked in transition, between the past and the future.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#84. A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
George Savile
#85. You may not believe it, but it is what I desire the most in the world. This place has afflicted me with a terrible wanderlust. I long for the fire, for the sights you have seen. Yet here I am, two hundred years after I arrived. Still a prisoner, though I masquerade as a king.
Samantha Shannon
#86. I live a very dull life here ... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Martha Washington
#87. Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.
Stevie Nicks
#88. What good is it to be rich if we canna scrape up the scratch to buy a political prisoner on a whim?
Kresley Cole
#89. Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.
Mariah Carey
#90. She's so caught up she's unaware she's no longer the prisoner here, I am
Poppet
#91. Nothing ever works out when you are at the whims of others. It doesn't matter if you are an entrepreneur or an employee. Once someone is bribing you to do something (a salary is a form of bribery if you are only doing the work for the money and not for the meaning) then you become a prisoner.
James Altucher
#92. A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
Leonard Peltier
#93. If we can cultivate in the world the idea that aggressive war-making is the way to the prisoner's dock rather than the way to honors, we will have accomplished something toward making the peace more secure.
Robert H. Jackson
#94. To forgive, one must love and be loved. Only those who forgive can be free. Whoever forgives is a prisoner no more.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#95. I'm concerned about the woman you're holding prisoner in there," Beckett said. "Knock three times if you're being held against your will."
Phoebe gasped and answered, "I'm fine, too."
"Good." Beckett said with a chuckle. "I was afraid I'd have to call the cops on my cop brother.
Elle James
#96. The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision ... You set a prisoner free, but you discover the real prisoner was yourself.
Lewis B. Smedes
#97. You are a prisoner of your thoughts. Expand your thoughts and get out of the prison.
Debasish Mridha
#98. Kevin, the only prisoner in the group who was not serving a murder sentence, summed it up by saying, "What a child experiences between the ages of seven and ten will determine his actions as a teenager and an adult.
Laura Bates
#99. Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
Warren Christopher
#100. When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.
Lewis B. Smedes
