Prison Quotes

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

A felon's cell-- The fittest earthly type of hell!

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.

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

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

I spent five and a half years in prison. The worst part was coming home and finding out Green Acres had been cancelled. What the hell was I fighting for?

I need a prison in order to dream of being free.

Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.

I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.

So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.

What Martin Shkreli will end up if he does wind up going to prison. I think that's I think what shocks a lot of people, that this is perfectly legal.

The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.

Wow. Clearly, I need to find myself an ex-con. Since prison is probably the only place in this city I haven’t looked for Mr. Right yet.

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.

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

It was a land of shadows and ice. Of gray. And grayer. And black. -The Unseelie prison of Aedan

The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it.

For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

You do not have to go to either criminalizing and throwing people in prison. I don't think you should do that for people who are using any drugs. I think they absolutely need treatment.

I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.

I'm kind of a weirdo; I love prison movies and war movies.

Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.

There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

Many people live in a self-imposed prison and don't even know it.

Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.

Sadness puts my heart in a prison.

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison.

I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.

The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That bridle's her curse, this island her prison. She still smells of rot.

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

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.

I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.