The Prisoner Quotes

#1. I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

Peter Singer

#3. When you forgive, the prisoner you set free is yourself.

Helen Klein Ross

#4. 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

#5. What I wasn't expecting was the euphoria once my body began releasing endorphins. The mixture of pain and pleasure was ecstasy. Getting my tattoo introduced me to secret, dark pleasures. I would always be a marked prisoner, but I was a liberated soul.

Scarlet Risque

#6. 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

#7. Doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!

Bram Stoker

#8. When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over ... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you.

John O'Donohue

#9. If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

Ghassan Kanafani

#10. The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.

Quentin Crisp

#11. So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!

Conor Oberst

#12. Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

Tennessee Williams

#13. Motioned to the sergeant-major to turn the prisoner around to show his back.

Diana Gabaldon

#14. The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

Remy De Gourmont

#15. Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

Plato

#16. Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.

Victoria Osteen

#17. Slavery of the heart, oh Love - a prisoner of will thou art - proof that love, while blissful, can oft also be Hell. Demonstrative definition thou art, that love can be strategic as well!

Christina Engela

#18. Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges;
but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether
the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner,
would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. Often we are the prisoner of praise and appreciation.

Debasish Mridha

#20. The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.

Junot Diaz

#21. To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.

George Orwell

#22. The Crimson Pirate, The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, The Black Pirate, Adventures of Don Juan, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sea Hawk, The Prisoner of Zenda, Scaramouche,

Cary Elwes

#23. I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.

Ingrid Betancourt

#24. He proceeded on the theory that confinement within the walls of the prison was punishment. That the law never intended to confine prisoners within the prison. From a moral point of view, it was putting the prisoner in double jeopardy. Actually it was a double punishment.

Lewis E. Lawes

#25. Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden of prison that I created in which I myself am the prisoner?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#26. The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

Sinclair Lewis

#27. Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.

Barack Obama

#28. I hate the very noise of troublous man
Who did and does me all the harm he can.
Free from the world I would a prisoner be
And my own shadow all my company.

John Clare

#29. Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble.

John Cusack

#30. Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.

Nizar Qabbani

#31. The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#32. When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. But I found in chess a very interesting game, especially the fact that a prisoner has total control over his pieces, which gives him some confidence back.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#34. Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

Agatha Christie

#35. When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

George Bernard Shaw

#36. It can be difficult to face the truth. And there's never a "good time" to face a difficult truth. So, I put it off for a better time, and become a prisoner of my own fear. It's the middle of Lent. There couldn't be a better time to face whatever truth I've been avoiding.

Ken Untener

#37. Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

William S. Burroughs

#38. Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

Michael Moorcock

#39. Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#40. 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

#41. Lack of empathy lies at the heart of every crime - certainly my own - yet empathy is the key to bringing a former prisoner back into the fold of society.

Piper Kerman

#42. James scoffed. "We are not being held prisoner. You're so dramatic."
"Oh yeah, she just kidnapped us and told us the only way we're going to be let go is if we go to other alien planets and steal from them. You're right, James, I'm clearly overly overreacting," Kat snapped.

L. Taylor

#43. Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of you future. You will never be the same.

Robin S. Sharma

#44. The young man looked down from the cart at the people in front of him. Jonah felt his teacher's eyes meet his own, and for a fraction of a second a smile played on the prisoner's lips. Then he glanced toward heaven and spoke. I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Anna Myers

#45. I would have been here sooner but Lysander held me prisoner in our cloud," Bianka said with a grin. "He wouldn't relent until Sabin gave the ok. Which I still don't understand and will continue to punish him for until he spills. Secrets or guts, I don't care which.

Gena Showalter

#46. 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

#47. The last cell in the row, whispering a prayer beneath her breath, a prisoner spat, the small splat landing just beside Katie's sneaker. In the exercise yard, Duvall grew chatty. Haven't seen you around. You been

Jodi Picoult

#48. I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#49. The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth

T.D. Jakes

#50. From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.

Mark Helprin

#51. But it is easy to speak of the past, impossible to go there. I am powerful in ways you can only dream, yet I am still a prisoner of what I have done. I can never escape the cell I have made for myself. Things are what they are.

Joe Abercrombie

#52. To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#53. Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?

Zell Miller

#54. You and I are impossible." she said.

"No." Gently, he brushed the hair back from her face. "We are what's real and true.

Anne Blankman

#55. I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars
I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars

Lil' Wayne

#56. How can a prisoner plot his escape if he doesn't believe a world exists outside the prison walls?

Skye Jethani

#57. The prisoner's recurrent, sporadic dreams of escape were simply that - spurious vagaries dismissed almost as quickly as they blossomed in Schkirt's feverish mind.

Stanley Goldyn

#58. Were such things here as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?

William Shakespeare

#59. The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.

Martin Luther

#60. I know the consequences, Manon," Ilyse conceded. "I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.

Melika Dannese Lux

#61. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

Nelson Mandela

#62. Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

Mason Cooley

#63. I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to man has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.

Ingmar Bergman

#64. Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand.
Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation
teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.

Terry Tempest Williams

#65. If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Peter Ustinov

#66. Every story has a time to be told, I convinced her. Otherwise you'll be forever a prisoner to the secret inside you.

Haruki Murakami

#67. Where did they go?"
"Don't know." The prisoner cracked a smile too big for his thin face. "I don't think they did, either. You should have seen how long it took them to open an Announcer. Looked like couple of bumbling fools."
Daniel felt himself almost begin to laugh.

Lauren Kate

#68. Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

Albert Camus

#69. I am a prisoner of my skin. My bones are my cage.

Dawn Kurtagich

#70. Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?

Django Wexler

#71. You want to know about the place called Hell?" he asked the curious animal. "There is no Hell," he said. "Hell is in here." He touched the raw, pink skin of his chest with the tips of his fingers. "And it will forever brun inside me for what I have done.

Thomas E. Sniegoski

#72. As long as you hate your enemy, a jail door is closed and a prisoner is taken. But when you try to understand and release your foe from your hatred, then the prisoner is released and that prisoner is you.

Max Lucado

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

Lahiri Mahasaya

#74. Clarence Jordan, co-founder of Koinonia Farm, wrote, The Good News of the resurrection is not that we shall die and go home with him, but that he is risen and comes home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick, prisoner brothers with him.

Shane Claiborne

#75. I miss the restraints. In a way, they allowed me the freedom to writhe and flail. They gave me something and someone to fight against. Without them ... I feel like a traitor. No longer a prisoner, I seem to be allowing them to keep me here.

C.J. Roberts

#76. Every inch of skin removed to the accompaniment of exquisite pain," added the prisoner, helpfully. Rincewind paused. He thought he knew the meaning of the word "exquisite," and it didn't seem to belong anywhere near "pain.

Terry Pratchett

#77. So don't be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, or of me His prisoner. Instead, share in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God.

Anonymous

#78. Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.

Jamie Fellner

#79. She looked fragile. Alone. Prisoner in the room through the mirror; an Alice who never made it back through the looking-glass.

Joss Stirling

#80. The voluntary captive
The speechless the prisoner
Which I hide in my very depths ...

Anne Desclos

#81. In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Eldridge Cleaver

#82. Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

Dilma Rousseff

#83. I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

Jack Henry Abbott

#84. When you are a prisoner yourself,
you imprison someone else.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion Of Blue Circle
October 30, 2016

Petra Hermans

#85. When you enter a lake and when the nature wraps you up tightly never letting you go out, you will be the happiest prisoner on earth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#86. I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#87. A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.

Beth Moore

#88. He looked at the white pills in his hand. 'Astin', Eddie called it. No, that wasn't quite right, but Roland couldn't pronounce the word as the prisoner had said it. Medicine was what it came down to. Medicine from that other world.

Stephen King

#89. Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
Th' indifferent judge between the high and low;
With shield of proof shield me from out the prease
Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw.

Philip Sidney

#90. The prisoner followed his guide, who led him into a room almost under ground, whose bare and reeking walls seemed as though impregnated with tears

Alexandre Dumas

#91. My wish for you ... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#92. Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#93. Learn from the past, but don't be a prisoner of it.

Jamie Larbi

#94. When Obama was elected president, a prisoner said one black man in the White House doesn't make up for one million black men in the Big House.

Angela Y. Davis

#95. Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

Max Lucado

#96. I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

Trenton Lee Stewart

#97. Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved.

Ian McKellen

#98. If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

Andrew Cohen

#99. You're scaring the dog, Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in
prisoner of war camps, I've heard. Depersonalization.

Garth Stein

#100. Author is the prisoner of his thoughts .

Rajiv Bakshi