Morgan Freeman Quotes

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes - the wall, the wall!

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.

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

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

The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have is years and years and years.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

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.

The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.