Best Prison Walls Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.”

Men Giving Dream Eye Work Sun Wall Hot Prison Bent Toil Brazen Prison Walls

Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems

Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems

“Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.”

Dream Talking Wall Pale Spinning Prison Walls City Walls Spinning Around Pale Skin Spinning Tops

Book:Grendel

Source: Grendel

“Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall--or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable--more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape.”

Love Kind Past Darkness Clear Wall Solitude Prison Shining Forgotten Bars Tone Holiday Sunshine Contrast Glances Unattainable Prison Walls

Book:The works of William Makepeace Thackeray

Source: The works of William Makepeace Thackeray

“Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.”

Pain Suffering Easy Teach Wall Prison Standing Out Prison Walls

Book:Prometheus Bound. The Suppliants. Seven Against Thebes. The Persians

Source: Prometheus Bound. The Suppliants. Seven Against Thebes. The Persians

“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”

Men Hands Stars Sides Our Lives Wall Men And Women Prison Every Man Limitation Temperament Prison Walls

Author:Margaret Deland

“Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.”

Would Be Wall Prison Convicts Investigators Prison Walls

Book:Kind and usual punishment: the prison business

Source: Kind and usual punishment: the prison business

“The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.”

Way Humans Heart Earth Law Desire Secret Forever Wall Police Prison Human Heart Secret Police Prison Walls Martial Law

Author:George W. Bush

“It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.”

Children Feelings Strong Growth Emotional Serious Wall Consequence Stronger Prison Prisoner Repressed Emotional Growth Prison Walls

Book:The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition

Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition

“Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.”

Men Should Mind Wall Limits Highest Prison Excellence Prison Walls

Author:Arthur Desmond

“You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.”

People Giving Looks Kind Book Light Mother Night Son Wall Fool Cold Thousand Gun Prison Ships Desert Flash Sail Moses Muzzle Points Of Light Prison Walls

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution.”

Want Littles Certain Order Individual Understanding Born Differences Creative Revolution Wall Prison Reform Treatment Prisoner Revolt Mutiny Prison Walls Breaking Away

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.”

Spirit Wall Prison Jail Locks Confined Prison Walls

Author:Lil Wayne

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”

“Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.”

Wall Cold Band Angel Prison Bars Iron Cages Imprisonment Incarceration Caged Stone Walls Prison Cells Prison Walls Prison Bars

Author:Scott Lynch

“We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.”

Figures Painting Wall Prison Brilliant Landscape Prison Walls

Book:THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

Source: THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

“Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.”

Way Love Inspirational Sides Change Born Walks Sky Color Wall Prison Prison Walls

Author:Rumi

“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.”

Differences Business Wall Taxes Prison Avoidance Income Tax Evasion Thickness Prison Walls Tax Evasion

Author:Denis Healey

“I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.”

Knows Years Long Law Strong Wall Prison Witty Each Day Jail Prison Walls

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!”

Way Giving Firsts May Mean Has Beens Truth Lying Dies Lines Behinds Possibility Wall Honor Draws Stones Crosses Prison Circles Reaching Thick Chalk Honor And Integrity Prison Walls Byu

Author:Karl G. Maeser

“We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.”

Stills Life Is Mother House Born Liberty Our Lives Wall Prison Jail Prisoner Execution Going Out Womb Prison Life Prison Walls

Book:John Donne: The Major Works

Source: John Donne: The Major Works

“I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.”

Careers Fans Building Wall Prison Devoted Fence Wire Affinity Barbed Wire Prison Walls

Author:Foxy Brown

“To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.”

World Want Trying Difficult Son Wall Raises Prison My Son Difficult Things Hypnosis Prison Walls

Author:Jim Bakker

“We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.”

Want Giving Littles Beautiful Wall Prove Prison Wander Ambitious Locks Searchers Prison Walls

Author:James Kavanaugh

“Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.”

Wall Angel Stones Prison Bars Iron Cages Imprisonment Incarceration Caged Stone Walls Prison Cells Prison Walls Prison Bars

Author:Richard Lovelace

“Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.”

Sky Wall Prison Prison Walls

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.”

People Thinking Needs Firsts Culture History Wall Words Of Wisdom Regard Shame Prison Chains Ashamed Controlled Conqueror Prison Walls History And Culture

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon”

I Can Behinds Sky Wall Blue Prison Clouds Heavy Horizon Blue Sky Prison Walls Clear Blue Sky

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations