Top 100 Your Prison Quotes
#1. You're telling me that this teenage girl has not only escaped from your prison and evaded capture by your highly trained military, but has now invaded your palace and the private quarters of the emperor himself, kidnapped him, and again gotten away with it?'
'Precisely correct, Your Majesty.
Marissa Meyer
#2. Be free! Get out of your prison of conforming thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Any place you don't want to stay becomes your prison! That's why there are many prisoners all around the world who look like free men!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.
Neil Peart
#5. The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.
Max Lucado
#6. Look at the mirror! Who are you? You are not yourself, you are your culture! Do you want to be yourself? Then leave your prison and discover the paths beyond your path!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#8. Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.
Tim Fargo
#9. Are you searching for the river of your soul?
Then come out of your prison.
Leave the stream
and join the river
that flows into the ocean.
Rumi
#10. If you cannot escape your prison, then you might as well imagine that you're free.
Stefan Molyneux
#11. When you have to hide who you really are to the world, you create a shell around yourself over time. A painted on coating of lies. It becomes your shield ... and your prison.
Selena Kitt
#12. Watch out for men who love something more than themselves or you. Their passion can be your prison.
Gwendolyn Heasley
#14. Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.
Cheri Huber
#15. Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can become your prison after a while. The identity that you stand up for can enslave you and close you to the rest of the world.
Murathan Mungan
#16. If you place belief on a pedestal, it will become your prison.
Ken Dickson
#17. And freedom? Oh, freedom.
Well that's just some people talking.
Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
Jacqueline Woodson
#18. Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#19. My fate is a prison. It's the only one of us who didn't need to inhabit one. I took your responsibility for those souls for you, even though their deaths are your fault. You should be forced to feel what it's like for someone to be imprisoned.
Martha Brockenbrough
#20. Charles had more respect for Adam after he knew about the prison. He felt the warmth for his brother you can feel only for one who is not perfect and therefore no target for your hatred.
John Steinbeck
#21. Thinking Reports enable the prisoners to wash their brains, and become new!" he announced cheerfully. "Washing the brain is very important to your reform, and improving your real situation.
Dominic Stevenson
#22. 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
#23. Fear is a prison. A feeling of crippling power that spreads darkness within. It blinds. It questions. It takes over every decision we make, coloring it with doubt. Fear, for most of us, rules our lives, and it's only when you conquer it that you can truly live your life to the fullest.
Mia Asher
#24. Mishmar. Your father's hellish prison he cobbled together from the remains of office buildings from Omaha, which he destroyed. The Mishmar that's stuffed to the brink with mutated vampires. That Mishmar." "Yes." "You
Ilona Andrews
#25. A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.
Earl Nightingale
#26. Good-bye Holmes. It ... hasn't really been a pleasure. But thank you for the information. Be careful to keep out of prison. Unless you want an upgrade to your current living conditions, then I wish you the best.
Zechariah Barrett
#27. As a player, remember that the bench is not a prison, but an extension of the first group. Concentrate on the quality of your play when you do get into the game. If you play 20 minutes, play the best 20 you can possibly play.
Stan Albeck
#28. Because you can't kiss your way out of prison and I knew that for sure. For dead sure.
Elliott Chaze
#29. If you are staying inside your comfort zone, It means you are in a prison and that hinders your life.
Mohith Agadi
#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. One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. It says adult prison on the gates, not Hogwarts. Now, get in and say hi to your new housmate.
Dean Cole
#33. My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#34. Well, a lot of things surprised me. There were things that I had never thought about, in my life. I never thought about how loud prison was. I've never thought about how your ears never really get a break from all this noise. That was actually replicated on our set pretty well.
Taylor Schilling
#35. Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment.
Deepak Chopra
#36. I promise you that I will steal your heart and keep it in the prison of my love forever.
Debasish Mridha
#37. If you go to prison, your child support adds up.
Rand Paul
#38. If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.
R.D. Ronald
#39. It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.
W. Somerset Maugham
#40. Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a movie curled up with your lover and time ceases to exist. Spend two hours waiting for your lover to come and time is the iron bars of a prison
Chloe Thurlow
#41. I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.
Nelson Mandela
#42. When you are up in life your friends get to know who you are. When you are down in life you get to know who your friends are.
#minoradjustments101
Michael L. Williams Jr.
#43. Three year in prison and a dick is just another thing to put up your ass.
Marlon James
#44. She told me of your two chief faults, your vanity, and your being, as she termed it, "all wrong about money". I have a distinct recollection of how I laughed. I had no idea that the first would bring me to prison, and the second to bankruptcy.
Oscar Wilde
#45. Truth: sometimes a murderer cannot be found. Truth: sometimes your children are taken and you are left behind. Truth: poverty is a prison. Truth: disease and age come to us all.
Claire North
#46. When you're trapped in a prison, and your heart is broken, and you can't move a finger because you don't know what to do, that's when you wake up.
Robin Gregory
#47. Go out and do something. It isn't your room that's a prison, it's yourself.
Sylvia Plath
#48. When I was released from prison everybody thought I'd go back to doing the same things I did before, but I had no desire to do any of that anymore. That stuff steals, kills, and destroys your life and robs you of all the blessings that God has for you.
Christian Hosoi
#49. there is one similarity between a prison guard and a leader: Both have the final word. When a decision is made, it must be accepted by those on your team, or they must be encouraged to find another team.
John Wooden
#50. Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.
Craig Charles
#51. It's when you feel worse, that's when your character comes out and the last thing you want to do is quit.
Paul T. Scheuring
#52. Going to school is like going to prison ... you have about two weeks to establish your credibility, failing which you're either a punk or as good as dead. Depending on the school, some students can manage ot avoid those stark alternatives, but even at the best school, no teacher does.
Garret Keizer
#53. When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
Bryan Burrough
#54. You're not going to throw this away, are you?" she says, and she'll be talking about the grains of rice in the bottom of the salt shaker. "No, Mrs. Peacock, by all means, you take them. They'll come in handy when your son gets out of prison and marries your niece.
David Sedaris
#56. When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.
Stephen King
#57. You know, in a society where children just about have to seek parental permission to sit on Santa's knee, the word 'paedophile' should send more shivers up your spine than the word 'druggie'.
Stephen Richards
#58. You have no chose but to assume it's your fault, that you're unlovable. And the feeling wraps around you until it becomes a prison, and you find yourself barricading that doors against anyone who wants to come in.
Lisa Kleypas
#59. Don't tell me what to do - you have eight numbers after your name just like me.
Piper Kerman
#60. Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#61. Find the window of unconditional love in your heart and liberate yourself from the prison of judgemental and conforming thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#62. I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.
Andrew Fastow
#63. Why do you stay in the prison of stress when keys are in your hand?
Debasish Mridha
#64. Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom,
Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison
That keeps you from achieving what you want.
Tony Robbins
#65. Your way begins at the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
Rumi
#66. If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#67. Oh spare me, being stuck in your bedroom is not like prison. You don't have to worry about being gang-raped in your bedroom.
Justin Halpern
#68. Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.
Wilbert Rideau
#69. Your father picks you up from prison in a stolen Dodge Neon with an 8-ball in the glove
compartment and a hooker named Mandy in the back seat.
Dennis Lehane
#70. It's maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.
David Lynch
#71. To go to prison because of your convictions and be prepared to suffer for what you believe in, is something worthwhile. It is an achievement for a man to do his duty on earth irrespective of the consequences.
Nelson Mandela
#72. Your self-imposed prison. That think called your COMFORT ZONE. Challenge it, stretch it. You will thank yourself.
Tony Curl
#73. Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.
Robert Greene
#74. That was the attorney. He said the doctors are very pleased with your father's progress and that his behavior has been exemplary-'
'Well, that's stupid.' My reaction was rude and raw. 'Of course he's been a model prisoner, Mom. There aren't any kids to molest in prison.
Laura Wiess
#75. I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.
Patricia McConnell
#76. Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
Barney Frank
#77. Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat.
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
#78. Some clown shouting, "I want my lawyer, I want my lawyer, you guys run this place just like a frigging prison." Burkes: "Shut up in there, or I'll rank you." The clown: "I ranked your wife, Burkie." Gonyar:
Stephen King
#79. If you feel your life is boring, go visit your relatives in the hospital or prison.
Toba Beta
#80. Are you searching for your soul?
Then come out of your own prison.
Rumi
#81. Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.
Jay-Z
#82. You do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them.
Neil Gaiman
#83. You may need to forgive yourself for something in your past. God has already forgiven you if you've confessed & asked for His forgiveness. It's harder to forgive yourself, isn't it? You've been locked in this prison of anger & bitterness far too long.
Beth Barnhart
#84. Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
Patrick Macnee
#85. You are a prisoner of your thoughts. Expand your thoughts and get out of the prison.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Friends, whoe'er ye be that are immured in that prison, forgive me that, to my misfortune and yours, I cannot deliver you from your misery;
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#87. 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
#89. When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.
Kahlil Gibran
#90. We build walls to protect ourselves from the hurt and pain. But someday you will realize that you are alone, in your own prison.
S.C. Rhyne
#91. You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people's happiness suffocate.
Israelmore Ayivor
#92. In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!
Joel McHale
#93. Also, it'd be kinda hard to be together if I was in prison."
"What are you talking about?" Helen asked, suddenly alarmed. "Why would you go to prison?"
"For killing the guy that took your virginity," he replied. "You I would forgive. But the guy? Dead man.
Josephine Angelini
#94. No buts, Bertie. If you don't keep your promise then you'll get into serious trouble. Big time. You could go to prison, and then what? And there's God too. God watches these things and if he sees you breaking promises he can really get you. He does it all the time.
Alexander McCall Smith
#95. You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.
Piper Kernan
#96. Power isn't the big cars and bent slaves
Power is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.
Sapphire Belucci
#97. Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed
Dean Karnazes
#98. The worst prison is not made of metal bars. The worst prison is when your internal reality does not match your external reality.
Yasmin Mogahed
#99. You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether you're in India or Tibet.
Pico Iyer
#100. When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of the chaplain in his first prison began with these words:
'Mr. Wilde, did you have morning prayers in your house?'
'I am sorry ... I fear not.'
'You see where you are now!
Charles Ricketts
