Quotes About Imprisonment

We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through.

I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.

Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

Spending time in jail really helped me stay away from what my brother did because I got a taste of jail time. I realized this isn't the life I want to live being locked up 24 hours a day.

You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

you just can't wait to get out of your head, can you?" "if you were in here you might want that too.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

Despite the starvation and the hard work, some of the prisoners realized that life in Australia was actually better than life back in England. In England, they had been beggars with no way to get land of their own.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

or even mid September 1793, when Terror—the policy of intimidation—was officially declared "the order of the day" and the Law of Suspects was passed, which made it far too easy for a citizen to be suspected and imprisoned for counter-revolutionary sympathies or even for apathy, and which greatly expanded the powers of the Revolutionary Tribunal.

living in the palace of Versailles must have felt like being imprisoned in a constantly turning kaleidoscope.

You're not my type for long-term imprisonment.

This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me.

Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the Capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.

But she would learn. Every woman was a prisoner for life; it was not some burden that she bore uniquely. She would have all the company she could ever need. *

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.

We weren't so different, Finn and I. Cages come in lots of colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.

Ta? duvarlar de?ildir zindan? zindan yapan, Ya da demir parmakl?klar kafesi yaratan.