Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

When you are in prison, you have but one desire: freedom. If you fall ill in prison, you do not think about freedom - you think about health. Health is, therefore, more important than freedom.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

A caged canary is safe but not free.

I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

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

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.