Prisoner Quotes

It was cruel. Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it's tethered by the leg, and freedom is only an illusion.

~ Laini Taylor

I was sixteen, still my mother’s prisoner, the night I became the whale.

~ Kendall Kulper

Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A prisoner's shackles would always be a lawyers joy.

~ Dennis E. Adonis

The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A single idea keeps stirring. Would they feel that piece of bread in the mattress? Would he have any luck in the dispensary that evening? Would they out Buinovsky in the cells? And how did Tsezar get his hands on that warm vest?

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We all are the Prisoners of our Mind. Forget & Forgive to Claim your Freedom.

~ Deepak Chandra

THE CURSEMay they neverReturn home at night...May you have no part of eventide,May you have no room of your own,Nor road, nor return.May your days be all exactly the same,Five Fridays in a row,Always an unlucky Tuesday,No Sunday,May you have no more little worries,Tears or inspiration,For you yourself are the greatest worry on earth:Prisoner!

~ Visar Zhiti

The primary obligation of any prisoner is to escape. Whether that means actually leaving or simply figuring out a way to handle things so you don't go crazy is up to you.

~ Emmanuel Goldstein

I know a little bit about trying to do the right thing and fucking up completely. I added.You talking about mom? Ben saidI was talking about me.You could have been talking about all of us. Ben pressed his hand against the glass and my brother and I matched palms.

~ Gillian Flynn

The damn vermin are so numerous that I am afraid to sneeze, for fear the damned lice would regard it as gong for dinner, and eat me up - Robert Cobb Kennedy

~ Tobin T. Buhk

After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear.

~ R.d. Ronald

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

~ Nelson Mandela