Quotes About Imprisonment

They didn't allow kids in the visiting area, which was funny. It was funny because if I wasn't locked up, I wouldn't be allowed to come into the visiting room.

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

Now I am too beautiful to be set free.

Prison is a frame of thought, we're all our own prisons, were each our own wardens and we do our own time. See prison in your mind, can't you see I'm free?

Prison is a frame of thought, we're all our own prisons, were each our own wardens and we do our own time. See prison is in your mind, can't you see I'm free?

IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before.

There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day.It is always the same shape, only very numerous.And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.

It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.

She looked at her parents, clear-eyed and astonished, like she understood exactly who she was for the very first time. A prisoner of her own body.

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

The morning sun shines over the prison wall, And drives away the shadows and miasma of hopelessness. A life-giving breeze blows across the earth. A hundred imprisoned faces smile once more.

I've never cared for humming verse But what to do inside a jail? I'll hum some verse to pass long days I'll hum and wait till freedom comes.

It is amazing how much the Palestinians can tolerate economic deprivation. It is the imprisonment that hurts... this is not a security siege, it's a punitive siege.

At finding ourselves, and without having committed any crime, thus introduced into one of the legal fortresses of a country celebrated throughout the world for the freedom, equality, and magnanimity of its laws, I could not help reflecting on the strange ideas of right and justice that seemed to have usurped a place in public opinion, since the mere accident of birth, and what persons were the lease capable of changing or modifying was made a reason for punishing and imprisoning them.

staring out windows impossible to defenestrate therefrom.

Misschien is fictie het net waarin hij gevangen kan worden.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.

Locked up eighteen years, without even a television set or a newspaper. Needlework might seem pretty important if it was all you could do.

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

Let me once get from this country and give me a dungeon or a hovel in any other").

Con una visión perfecta uno se ve inextricablemente atrapado en el mundo cotidiano, prisionero de la realidad (...) Para la persona con ojos de halcón, la vida no posee ninguno de aquellos aspectos suaves que para mí se confunde con la fantasía

Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of many months, and anxiously saying to herself, Oh! when shall I leave you again?

The horror of her incarceration in the Tower was a defining event Elizabeth could never forget. It made a passionate heart more circumspect, a complex nature more contradictory and a fine intelligence sharp as a blade.