Quotes About Imprisonment

They are as unfree as Roquentin, yet they hide the terrible imprisonment of their existences by unthinkingly getting up, going out to work, relaxing on Sundays, and so on. They wrongly imagine that they have chosen this form of life, when of course it has chosen them.

I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.

Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.

It is being implied that I have pulled strings to get my son out of jail on bail. Tell me if I was so powerful why would I have allowed my son to languish in Arthur Road jail for 21 days?

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Rooms without a view are like prisons for the people who have to stay in them.

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.

Todo el mundo puede llegar hasta esa edad o más. Para ello basta con no morirse. Pero tengo entendido que los humanos viven más en cautiverio que en libertad.

When Paul went to prison, I cried at first. Not for Paul but for me. Then I started to behave strangely. Wild. Restless.

Tienes que ser tan dura como esta cárcel, como la piedra y el océano que te encierran en ella. Estás hecha de ladrillo y alambrada. Estás hecha de hierro.

You lack freedom, so you fantasize about it.

Before long the dark and dangerous Myrddin had become a good and helpful wizard, and I had been painted the vicious usurper who had seduced and betrayed him and imprisoned him in a forest

Throughout time, certain consensus beliefs have imprisoned us, kept us from evolving as a species, as individuals.

Wow, you have a very confused and amusing view of this situation," Peril said. "We're not your prisoners. You couldn't take me prisoner even with an army of IceWings. Not even if all of them had arrogant foreheads like yours. There isn't actually a world in which you need to decide whether to 'release' me. I released myself a long time ago, but thanks anyway.

And if you are even considering setting me free while keeping him trapped, I will roast your talons one claw at a time.

First I would have tied up all the dragonmancers and stuffed them in a cellar full of rotten potatoes.

They are prisoners. But perhaps that is about to change.

My point is that I grew up in the most terrible place in Pyrrhia, but it made me strong. This dungeon is nothing in comparison. Here, we get to eat every day and your queen even lets us out to stretch our wings more frequently than I can believe.

He did want to talk to Kinkajou about what had happened to Turtle — but he couldn't do that in front of Moon. He also couldn't take Moon to Anemone's room, because Anemone was there. Darkstalker wouldn't be able to hear any thoughts Moon had about the SeaWing princess, but to explain why she was there, they'd have to tell Moon about Turtle's imprisonment, and THAT would show up in her thoughts.

By 1995, some 7 percent of all African American adult males were interned [in prison]. As Loic Wacquant has remarked, the state of New York counts more men of color in its prisons than in its public universities. It is important to note that these trends reflect changes in policy rather than changes in behavior.

Ah, oui, pauvre papillon. C'est un de mes prisonniers

We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.

The smell of baking bread wafts up to my cell and reminds me of the days I walked freely in the cafes. This tears me apart more than my fear of death or the solitude in which I now find myself.

They were prisoners, trapped by old ways of life, jailed within the imperial palace. He was no more free than she was. Yet only she could do what she would. If she said she would be Empress, then none could hold her back.