Imprisonment Quotes

“Close every door to me, hide all the world from me.”

“Freedom would be a hell for me.”

“Written with the heavy heart and trembling hand of your highness's most heavy and most miserable prisoner and poor slave.”

“This is a very hard case, to be kept in irons so long, and I an innocent man.”

“If my imprisonment is the price for the awakening of a people, I gladly accept it.”

“My imprisonment is a message of fear, but it's a message that we won't accept.”

“Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.”

“A cage is a cage, no matter how gilded.”

“I have been a political prisoner for over 40 years.”

“My main feeling was a sense of utter weariness. I had longed for this day, but I had not allowed myself to believe in it.”

“I discovered that you can be imprisoned in a room but your mind can be free.”

“When you're in solitary confinement, you're in a world of your own.”