Quotes About Imprisonment

We are constantly given one-size-fits-all formulas, but those formulas fail, often and hard. Nevertheless, we are given them again. And again and again. They become prisons and punishments; the prison of the imagination traps many in the prison of a life that is correctly aligned with the recipes and yet is entirely miserable.

inside this prison he lived in freedom

They can keep men in here, under lock and key, deep in the dungeon until the final moments of their lives, so that men like York and me will never taste the rain. But they cannot keep us from passing our condensation on to the sky. They cannot keep us from raining down in China.

This girl's a prisoner of her time and her age, the same as anyone else, which means that all of this is perfectly serious to her.

To be fair to them, they were only after something that walled them off from the past and from people in general, not something that offered any connection that might prove painful or human. Thet wanted stories, I came to realise, in which they were already imprisoned, not stories in which they appeared along with the storyteller, accomplices in escaping.

The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time.

The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time. I too was wretchedly floundering around, tightly closed into the bag of myself.

More than iron doors, more than walls, it is the tiny peephole that really makes the prisoner feel locked in

If one accepted such reasoning, I who had lost my face was destined to be shut up forever in a solitary cell … with no roadway … and so a mask became invested with a terribly profound meaning.

The right to liberty was crucial: it is difficult to find a single reference to imprisonment in the whole of rabbinic literature, because only God can curtail the freedom of a human being. Spreading scandal about somebody was tantamount to denying the existence of God.104 Jews were not to think of God as a Big Brother, watching their every move from above; instead they were to cultivate a sense of God within each human being so that our dealings with others became sacred encounters.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!

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

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

I make sacrifices in reward of trinkets for my gilded cage.