The Prison Of My Mind Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#5. Mind is prison of one's potential
which can be freed by his dreams.

Toba Beta

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

John Locke

#13. Belief is a shelter, a prison for a curious mind.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.

Tim Fargo

#15. He had become her whole world,a way out of the prison of her own mind.

Lynn Matheson

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#24. The mind can be a prison or a prism...I choose the latter.

Paige Bleu

#25. India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind.

Gene Tierney

#32. 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

#33. A mind of one logic is the mind of a prison.

Lionel Suggs

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

Isadora Duncan

#39. Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.

Toba Beta

#40. Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home.

Walter Farrell

#41. 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

#42. A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

Clarence Darrow

#43. Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Peter Ustinov

#44. 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