Quotes About Imprisonment

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

Al momento de escribir estas líneas, Israel Vallarta permanece internado en El Altiplano y aún no ha sido juzgado.

His period of imprisonment also convinced him that the need for freedom, particularly the sense of being able to exercise one is free will, was an ineradicable need of the human personality and could express itself even in apparently self – destructive forms if no other outlet where possible.

I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.

Now Balna's son was a bright, clever boy, so he said, "Do not fear, dear mother; the first thing to do is to discover how far the Magician's power extends, in order that we may be able to liberate my father and uncles, whom he has imprisoned in the form of rocks and trees. You have spoken to him angrily for twelve long years; now rather speak kindly. Tell him you have given up all hopes of again seeing the husband you have so long mourned, and say you are willing to marry him.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

Y para qué quieren ser libres si no saben ser libres? La libertad no es gracia que se recibe ni derecho que se conquista. Se es libre aunque se carezca de libertad. Los hierros y las cárceles no impiden que un hombre sea libre. La libertad de un hombre no es como la libertad de los pájaros que se satisface en el vaivén de un aroma. La libertad de un hombre está en su conciencia.

I'd come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.

But over the past few months, I'd come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in a cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.

come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.

An acceptable proportion must be maintained whether in a novel, therapy or everyday life — between pain and other aspects of living. Humor, irony, diversity of interests, a sense of adventure, mystery, love — all are story elements passed over by those people who are most imprisoned within their pain. Such persons can be only temporarily interesting, either in a novel or in life itself.

Yank: Sure! Lock me up! Put me in a cage! Dat's de on'y answer yuh know. G'wan, lock me up!Policeman: What you been doin'?Yank: Enough to gimme life for! I was born, see? Sure, dat's de charge. Write it in de blotter. I was born, get me!

Per me l'ago della bilancia sei sempre tu. M'hanno chiesto chi sei. Se lo sapessi lo direi a gran voce. E sarei chiuso tra quelle sbarre donde non s'esce più.

My mind has never been in prison; I think all the time about what I should do on the day that I am released.

I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.

From my family alone, Qaddafi had imprisoned five men.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

Amma experienced commitment to one person as imprisonment, she hadn't left home for a life of freedom and adventure to end up chained to another person's desires

I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful death, which will, I hope, purge away my sins, find no heresy in myself, and accept with all my heart any truth whatsoever that is worthy of belief.

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

No, my girl, you know nothing of how we women are imprisoned in our lives, but there are ways to determine the sentence we must serve.

Only two of the prisoners were found sane enough to be hanged, and the rest were committed to various institutions.