William Wordsworth Quotes

Your room is not your prison. You are.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

you parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage. Every time you talk about what you don't love, you are adding another bar to the cage and you are locking yourself away from all the good.

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill.

For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and all the trouble we enjoyed stirring up out there, we were also cut off from the demands and expectations that had driven us crazy. What could be expected of us now that we were stowed away in a loony bin?

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

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.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

There are worse prisons than words.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

Why do people hanker for the home? - security, safety. But in the name of security and safety, they don't make homes, they make prisons - and they are the jailed and they are the jailers, but because they have the keys in their own hands, they think they are free.

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant. And I’m the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.I nibble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I’ve done that. All by myself. All to myself.

The idea that I hear from the right wing in the last few decades, is that any sort of sacrifice is an affront to my liberty as an American to be a pig the way I want to.

He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.

A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Feeling bad is not a requirement; it’s something we agree to. Cut it loose!

To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.