Quotes About Being A Prisoner

#1. Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.

Garth Nix

#2. Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.

Clive James

#3. But then I grew up, experienced some life, and I understood that when you merely switch from being a prisoner to being a guard, no one is freed, not even yourself.

Lisa Crystal Carver

#4. We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

Robin S. Sharma

#5. 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

#6. I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

Erich Fromm

#7. Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

Robert Breault

#9. I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.

Adam Michnik

#10. Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

Ronnie Hawkins

#11. I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

Al Goldstein

#12. There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

Gerald Stern

#13. Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of Kriya, learn to escape into Spirit.

Lahiri Mahasaya

#14. The Laundry field operations manual is notably short on advice for how to comport one's self when being held prisoner aboard a mad billionaire necromancer's yacht, other than the usual stern admonition to keep receipts for all expenses incurred in the line of duty.

Charles Stross

#15. Happiness was still on the other side of a glass door, but at least she could see it through the glass, like a prisoner being visited by a longed-for loved one.

Jeanette Winterson

#16. Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.

Jerry Della Femina

#17. One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

Matt Dillon

#18. If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.

Carla H. Krueger

#19. I shouldn't think of my situation as being held prisoner; it's more like I'm on a mission behind enemy lines.
I'm a freaking spy.

Pittacus Lore

#20. She shivered as a blustery wind rushed past. She'd made a mistake in returning to the city. She should've stayed in the castle with Antoine. She'd be warm in his arms right now, instead of being held prisoner.

Lisa Carlisle

#21. 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

#22. You can grow up being a troublemaker and then before you know it the next thing you're doing is listening to Frank Zappa whilst chilling out ... now that's the intelligent way out. What would a psychiatrist say about that?

Stephen Richards

#23. 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

#24. We heard that girls who had left to get married were being deported with their husbands. A girl who had a love affair with a French prisoner was sent to a concentration camp, and the Frenchman was executed.

Edith Hahn Beer

#25. 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

#26. A year ago I was being kept in this cell and I didn't want to kill anyone, not even the people who held me prisoner. I just wanted to escape, just wanted freedom. And now I have that; I have my freedom.

Sally Green

#27. When I was being moved, a deputy U.S. Marshal with a Southern accent so thick it sounded like he was doing a bad parody of a Good Ol' Boy sheriff laughed and said, "You're the only prisoner we ever had that got booted out of jail!

Kevin D. Mitnick

#28. I am like a prisoner who happens on enjoy an imaginary freedom in his dreams and who subsequently begins to suspect that he is asleep and, afraid of being awakened, conspires silently with his agreeable illusions.

Rene Descartes

#29. See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.

Henry David Thoreau

#30. It's very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.

Raymond Aubrac

#31. Another fairy flew up, carrying a spear and wearing a helmet and not much else. I thought about asking why he had armor on his head and not his balls, but I didn't think that was proper etiquette while being held prisoner by the Dark Woods fairies.

T.J. Klune

#32. The closest thing I could think of that men go through is like a prisoner of war being tortured, and then coming back from that experience. It's traumatic and grounding and makes you commit to the world. Also, because you want all of these things for your kid.

Larkin Grimm

#33. By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.

Maajid Nawaz