Prison Life Quotes

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

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.

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.

Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. War, prison, survival periods, enforce a form of simplicity on us. The monk and the nun choose it of their own free will. But if one accidentally finds it, as I have for a few days, one finds also the serenity it brings.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.