Psychological Imprisonment Quotes

She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.

We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

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

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

There are laws in some countries, I believe, which prohibit anyone from following you in the street, and if someone does, he can be arrested and put into prison. So, spiritually, I wish there were a police system which would put people into a spiritual prison for following others. In fact, it does happen automatically.

You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

You expect me to believe that you're being held against your will?" I raised a skeptical eyebrow. "You're roaming around the castle freely." "As are you." He turned away from me then. "Not all prisons have bars. You should know that better than anyone, Princess.

This souls'prison we call England.

We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

The mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one afternoon. The last thing he saw was you naked amid unnaked things.

The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it he cannot grow or mature.