A Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer
German - Philosopher
February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860

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Bobby Sands

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Tennessee Williams

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

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A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Michael Emerson

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John Selden

The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision. ... You set a prisoner free, but you discover the real prisoner was yourself.

Lewis B. Smedes

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.