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1 " Ester asked why people are sad." That’s simple," says the old man. " They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams. "
2 " We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. "
― Rick Warren , The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
3 " Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. " You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do? "
4 " To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire learned positively nothing, thanked her for it specifically. " Best dungeons I ever been in," he said, chewing on a toothpick." Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he had gone. " We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers. "
5 " While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus. "
― Andrew Solomon , The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
6 " That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space. "
― Vladimir Bartol , Alamut
7 " " If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose. "
8 " 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. "
― Simon Van Booy , The Illusion of Separateness
9 " ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION. AND EVEN OBLIVION MUST END SOMEDAY. LORD, WILL YOU GRANT ME JUST A LITTLE TIME? FOR THE PROPER BALANCE OF THINGS. TO RETURN WHAT WAS GIVEN. FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS.Death took a step backwards.It was impossible to read expression in Azrael's features.Death glanced sideways at the servants. LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN? "
― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)
10 " On the ethics of war the Quran and the New Testament are worlds apart. Whereas Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek, the Quran tells us, 'Whoso commits aggression against you, do you commit aggression against him' (2:194). The New Testament says nothing about how to wage war. The Quran, by contrast, is filled with just-war precepts. Here war is allowed in self-defense (2:190; 22:39), but hell is the punishment for killing other Muslims (4:93), and the execution of prisoners of war is explicitly condemned (47:4). Whether in the abstract is is better to rely on a scripture that regulates war or a scripture that hopes war away is an open question, but no Muslim-majority country has yet dropped an atomic bomb in war. "
― Stephen R. Prothero , God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
11 " Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners. "
― Paul W. Silver , The Dangerous Dream
12 " Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession. "
― Richard Diaz
13 " I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old. "
14 " It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death. "
― Plato , The Allegory of the Cave
15 " we are prisoners of our own lives, until we find the courage to break free from the prison that we created ourselves. "
16 " Even prisoners can escape if they have books. "
― Michelle Moran , Rebel Queen
17 " The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live "
― Bangambiki Habyarimana , Pearls Of Eternity
18 " It's too bad war makes peopledisappear like chess pieces, and that prisonsturn prisoners into movie endings. "
19 " In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our freedom to find our place in the world. "
20 " It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril.You are not yet free, you still search for freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful.You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long for freedom; they bark for joy in their cellar when your spirit aspires to break open all prisons.To me you are still a prisoner who imagines freedom: ah, such prisoners of the soul become clever, but also deceitful and base. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Thus Spoke Zarathustra
