Quotes About Imprisonment

Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!

Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.

I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.

Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.

I wrote, exercised, ate healthy, and responded to life in prison very well.

No one wants to be sent to prison, including me.

People say people who spend too many years in prison don't know how to act when they get free. I don't know how I am going to act, how I am going to kill time, once I am not a fighter. Retirement scares me, and I have to think about how I am going to handle it.

I came home to four children, and I came home to two tombstones. My mother was in one and my grandmother was in the other. They'd both passed away while I was in prison.

I think at some point I would like to meet my dad. He's in prison in the U.S. for life, so it's about figuring out where he is stationed and making time to see him.

I knew early on that I was going to prison for the rest of my life and that there was nothing that no one was going to be able to do to help me.

I was sentenced in 1991 to life in prison.

The prisoner never loves his warden, even if he obeys the rules from time to time.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

Prisoners around the world have said that reading 'The Count of Monte Cristo' helped them get through their ordeal. That's something to aspire to.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

They realize their ultimate doom, but they are fatalists, incapable of resistance or escape. Not one of the present generation has been out of sight of these walls.

Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with a creed, like a club, in his hand. He knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed. Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

Any church that imprisons a man because he has used an argument against its creed, will simply convince the world that it cannot answer the argument.

I could almost hear my books in the living room, boarded up in their Jefferson bookcases, crying out to me, like someone stuck in an elevator, or a coffin: "Let us out of here. We're suffocating. Let us out. Let us OUT!" And I started to laugh. "I'll be down in a minute," I said.

realities that kept the music silent, the dreams in a box.