quotations about prison
A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.
VLADIMIR BARTOL
Alamut
More than iron doors, more than walls, it is the tiny peephole that really makes the prisoner feel locked in.
KOBO ABE
The Woman in the Dunes
We're building prisons all over the world and calling them luxury condos.
J. G. BALLARD
Cocaine Nights
Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.
ANN BRASHARES
Sisterhood Everlasting