Quotes About Imprisonment

This morning I shot six holes in my freezer. I think I've got cabin fever.

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

When you are imprisoned by the rules of conformity, it tames your imaginative capacity and steals your free thinking abilities.

When you're trapped in a prison, and your heart is broken, and you can't move a finger because you don't know what to do, that's when you wake up.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.

The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

More and more I knew my budding world was ruined if he were free in it. As a specimen Mr. Wallace might be my pride. Glory to him in a jar. But free! Better to release the sweet moving tiger or the delicate snake, the monumental elephant. I was just a castaway to be devoured.

All they got locked up in this hole is my body. That's all they got, my body, not me. I'm everywhere, see? Everywhere you look, junior, everywhere you go.

You can't make someone love you." She held out her right hand to flash a ring with a gaudy stone set in it. "But you can imprison him in a ring for not loving you. See?

Hilda! Let me out!" Sabrina heard faintly. "Thou art starting to grown on me!

we are all in the situation of the inmate who prefers working in the prison laundry to sitting in the cell watching TV all day.

Is there anything worse than being trapped in a dream?

I think I received a new understanding of the meaning of suffering," he wrote Harold DeWolf, "and I came away more convinced than ever before that unearned suffering is redemptive." The imprisonment had not been pleasant, but he did feel that his faith had benefited from the experience.20

Gabriela was in prison for Judaizing, but she recited the prayers of her tormentors. She had not even the comfort of the religion for which she was punished.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.