Quotes About Imprisonment

As a Gurs inmate remarked to an American consul: "To you, we are just numbers. To us, you are the god who has the right to open the gates of the promised land or keep shut that door and condemn us to despair.

With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knees. Jail, he's realized, might not be all bad. There's routine and order in jail, and he's able to click into a survival mode that is not too dissimilar, in terms of steeliness of mental state, to the one he'd perfected during winters in the woods. "I'm surrounded in here by less than desirable people," he says, "but at least I wasn't thrown into the waters of society and expected to swim.

I man is a prisoner of only his own mind.

Nearly one-third of Acts recounts Paul on trial or in prison, and in five of the thirteen letters he is identified as a prisoner of, or in, Christ (never mentioning Roman authorities!):

Vichy officials and collaborationists imprisoned 135,000 people (many for little more than their political beliefs), sent 650,000 more to Germany as "guest workers" under an obligatory labor scheme, and, most notoriously, sent 76,000 Jews to Nazi death camps. Less than 3 percent of those Jews survived.

Even prisoners can escape if they have books.

Hablen, sigan hablando —dijo Carvajal después de un largo silencio—; sigan hablando! —¡Hablemos de la libertad! —murmuró el estudiante. —¡Vaya una ocurrencia! —se le interpuso el sacristán—; ¡hablar de la libertad en la cárcel! —Y los enfermos ¿no hablan de la salud en el hospital?...

Tr?im într-o puÈ™c?rie fermec?toare, nu mai puÈ›in magic? decât orice ne putem închipui.

This is the nameless land, they say. To you, who for reasons unknowable glimpse here these words. Good people, do not mistake the terms of the agreement: Do not ask men for the story of the nameless land. Do not move lips and tongue in an imitation of the tongue of the nameless land. Do not treat as men those who are imprisoned in the nameless land.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Age is a prison from which we cannot escape but only by death, into another world.

?çindeki ?air hiçbir zaman ölmemi? ama [...] onu, kendinden yap?lma bir hapishanede kilit alt?na alm??t?.

The king is a prisoner in disguise. All he can enjoy are free meals like a prisoner getting the same pleasure in prison.

There isn't much of a difference between a king and a prisoner. Because both have limited time to see the outside world at will.

Sill. Their horses and weapons were confiscated, and they were imprisoned. In a field just

As many as twenty men who were tortured by Burge are still in prison. Their fight for freedom continues.

I will take away your means of escape.

To me...she was spring. It was as if while imprisoned inside the dark cage of the inner family...I had completely frozen into snow...and then there she was--fresh, clear spring. It was almost inevitable that..I would fall in love with her. -Hatori

I felt privileged to live and work and play in a place that few had ever seen. And I was grateful I had been imprisoned here, in a leprosarium, where I could begin to rebuild my life in a different way.

I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective novels and all the works of Daphne du Maurier, but little more.

Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the world moves on.

and when we did come out [of prison], my children said, "We thought we had a father and one day he'd come back. But to our dismay, our father came back and he left us alone because he has now become the father of the nation.

I waited with some anxiety, and suddenly, filling out the glass on the other side of the window was Winnie's lovely face. Winnie always dressed up for prison visits, and tried to wear something new and elegant. It was tremendously frustrating not to be able to touch me wife, to speak tenderly to her, to have a private moment together.

What struck me so forcefully was how small the planet had become during my decades in prison;