The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free
She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.
because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.
I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.
I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.
When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much a prisonor as I was. Where Vaughn imprisoned me with walls, he imprisoned his son with ignorance.
