Vernon Howard Quotes

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

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

Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.

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

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.

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.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

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

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

There's no way out of here.

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

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.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

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

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

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

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

...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.

Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!

I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit.