Quotes About Imprisonment

Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization as we know it. We will find him, lock him up, and throw away the key. But give the man credit; for a week the truth was laid bare.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.

I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.

There were times when I was terrified to go to school because it felt like a jail sentence.

But at least I am in a place larger than a teacup. I once dwelt in a cup of tea, and on that occasion, I sensed the constraints of the space.

So they locked me up," Danskin said. "I feigned madness. I babbled, I recited Heine. Nine years. Here I am." They rode in silence for a while. "But you're still pissed off." "Now more than ever.

Não tem de ser assim tão ruim - disse Breu calmamente. - A maior parte das nossas prisões é criada por nós mesmos. Um homem também faz a própria liberdade.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

twenty-five years in prison.

Those five days we were locked up together at Vasa Luigi's, that wasn't an effect of the imprisonment, was it? That's the way you really are, when you're well? Pretty much, he admitted. I've always wondered what adult hyperactives did for a living.

They were four desperate men, made hard by life, cruel by nature, and driven to desperation by imprisonment.

confined to an upstairs room much of the time.

El ininterrumpido ir y venir del tigre ante los barrotes de su jaula para que no se le escape el único y brevísimo instante de la salvación.»

sino porque una sola existencia, por muy grande y muy buena que sea, siempre será una especie de cárcel, una mutilación de las otras posibles realidades, de los otros individuos que pudimos ser. ¿Quién no ha deseado alguna vez ser otro? Contenerse dentro de una sola identidad resulta empobrecedor. Cuando el yo es algo que aletea dentro de ti, la construcción del ser es una tarea dificultosa.

A comfortable prison was still a prison.

After they stopped torturing him they locked him in the jail cell again and pretended they would forget him... Then, eventually, and unexpectedly, release. Into ignominy, oblivion, married life.

The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.

To be imprisoned by the need to be loved was to be sealed in a cell in which one experienced an interminable torment and from which there was no escape.

like flies, only more foolish, because we celebrated our captivity.

Trapped inside a metaphor, I've often felt the need to re-describe it, to change the terms. This isn't so much a balloon, I've wanted to say, as a bubble within which I'm simultaneously exposed and sealed off.... depriving me of reality, reducing me to an abstraction.... [NY, Dec. 1991; Columbia Graduate School Of Journalism Speech]

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

Of course,' the inspector remarked, with the naïvety of the corrupt, 'if he had really been rich, he would not be in prison.

jailer is no man to a prisoner - he is a living door, a barrier of flesh and blood adding strength to restraints of oak and iron.