Prison Bars Quotes

• As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Acceptance

  "A white South African's memories of Mandela" by Nadia Bilchik, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2013.

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• Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

  Beck

  Positive, Happiness, Stars

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• Two men looked out from prison bars,
  One saw the mud, the other saw stars.

  Dale Carnegie

  Stars, Men, Two

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.135, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wall, Angel, Iron

  "To Althea, from Prison" l. 25 (1649)

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• Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

  Scott Lynch

  Wall, Angel, Iron

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• no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough to consider the effects of greed and jealousy around them. From what she'd seen, humans were essentially troubled. For every one behind bars, another ten deserved to be behind bars, but that would put one in ten Americans behind bars.

  Ted Dekker

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Long, Evil

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Bone Man's Daughters”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

  David Mitchell

  Ribs, Bars, Prison

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• Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Heart, Blue, Broken

  Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”

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• Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! Thus the tale ended.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Warrior, Soul

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Complete in One Volume”, p.38

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• It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Opportunity, Bars

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• There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'

  Amy Carmichael

  Stars, Men, Two

  Amy Carmichael (2013). “Gold by Moonlight: Sensitive Lessons from a Walk with Pain”, p.22, CLC Publications

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• Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?
  Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.
  You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?

  Ouida

  Beautiful, Song, Prayer

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• Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness. The bird has wings, and wings were made to cleave the air, and soar in freedom in the sun. The soul is immortal it cannot feed upon husks.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Air, Wings, Bird

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