A Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
American - Priest
June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

Pope John Paul II

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

Ambrose Bierce

Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, "Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive!" Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.

Michael Jackson

There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is no prison which is tighter than the prison of hawa (desire) and there is no bond/fetter more strong than the bond of desire. How, then, will a heart which is captivated, imprisoned and fettered travel unto Allah and the Home of the Hereafter?

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Stendhal

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

Leonard Peltier

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

T. S. Eliot

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

Duane Chapman

What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.

Richard Dawkins

Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

Barney Frank

The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.

Richard Selzer

We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.

George Crabbe

I'm outraged that we're building roads, schools, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that we're doing it with borrowed money from China that we're paying interest on. I'm outraged.

Gary Johnson

Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.