A fly and a flea in a flue Were imprisoned, so what could they do? Said the Flea, Let us fly! Said the Fly, Let us flee! So they fled through a flaw in the flue. – Anon.
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. – Eldridge Cleaver
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. – Cyril Connolly
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. – John Donne
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. – Elizabeth Drew
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. – Jean Genet
I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesnt know where to die. – Antonio Gramsci
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. – Thomas Hobbes
It isnt true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. – Mario Vargas Llosa
Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. – Richard Lovelace
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. – Horace Mann
The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. – Henry Miller
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. – George Bernard Shaw
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Its like feeding a dog on his own tail. It wont fatten the dog. – Mark Twain
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – Evelyn Waugh
I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. – Oscar Wilde
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door thats unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
