Prisoner Quotes

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. (Edward R. Murrow)
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. View quote
Winston Churchill
A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it. View quote
Erich Fromm
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. View quote
Robin S. Sharma
Sadness makes you God's prisoner. View quote
Emil Cioran
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. View quote
Ben Jonson
I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner. View quote
Albert Kesselring
You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either. (Mick Jagger)
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. View quote
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams. View quote
Haruki Murakami
One of the greatest delusions of the average man is to forget that life is death's prisoner. View quote
Emil Cioran
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself. View quote
Edie Brickell
As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I. View quote
Phil Ochs
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. (Bob Marley)
Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!" View quote
Conor Oberst
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. View quote
Henri Matisse
We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians. View quote
Heinrich Müller