#imprisoned

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#beings #false #glorious #illusion #imprisoned

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things. ↗

— Adnan Pachachi

#above #affiliations #everybody #imprisoned #own

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

#flips #imprisoned #living #most #something

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#home #house #imprisoned #memories #paintings

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#crisis #great #great changes #habit #him

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#bishop #elizabeth #francisco #i #imprisoned

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. ↗

— Anna Freud

#his #imprisoned #infinite #life #like

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know. ↗

— Sun Ra

#american #bars #began #behind #feel

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#challenge #having #imprisoned #imprisonment #legality

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#book #conscious #first #go #guess