Mental Imprisonment Quotes

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly.

The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.

All people are enslaved by something.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.

Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Because it is precisely this secret dream that keeps you enslaved to the system.

Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles.

Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars.

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as though they were incarcerated in a maximum-security penitentiary.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.

They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.