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Self Imprisonment Quotes

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Ashim Shanker
“Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.”
― Ashim Shanker, Only the Deplorable
tags: apathy, comfort-is-a-prison, comfort-zone, craving, liberation, malaise, self-doubt, self-growth, self-imprisonment, spiritual-insights, stagnant, unrealized-potential
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Frank Bidart
“The law is that you
must live

in the house you have built.

The law is absurd: it is
written down nowhere.

You are uncertain what crime

is, though each life writhing to
elude what it has made

feels like punishment.”
― Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival: Poems
tags: making, punishment, self-imprisonment
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
tags: anger, compress, depress, don-t-hate-yourself, food-for-thought, forgiveness, free, freedom, glad, happiness, happy, hatred, impress, impression, impressive, imprison, israelmore-ayivor, liberate, liberation, liberty, oppress, oppression, sad, self, self-hatred, self-imprisonment, self-liberation, suppress, suppression, unhappy, yourself
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S.J. Kincaid
“That missleproof glass might as well have been electrified fence and barbed wire. No one could fashion a prison so perfect, so complete, as the one the masters of humanity had created for themselves.”
― S. J. Kincaid
tags: class-system, politics, self-imprisonment
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Charles Yu
“IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before.”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
tags: self-imprisonment
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Jenny Noble Anderson
“With your weathered
feathers,

sunken breast and
chipped beak, you
can exit now.

Spread the wire
with your wings
and sing

the sweet melody
that still wriggles in
your throat,

as you soar out
the window that
was always there.”
― Jenny Noble Anderson, But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings
tags: birds, cages, escape-oneself, flight, fly, freedom, self-imprisonment, soar
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Sri Aurobindo
“The outward and the immediate are our field,
The dead past is our background and support;
Mind keeps the soul prisoner, we are slaves to our acts;
We cannot free our gaze to reach wisdom’s sun.

01.04_011:032”
― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
tags: difficulties, limitations, limits-of-consciousness, need-for-freedom, self-imprisonment, slavery, sun, the-goal, wisdom
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