Quotes About Imprisonment

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment.

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Your home is your jail, Bird. I'm going to set you free.

It wasn't necessarily that I wasn't a fan of fairies. Really. It wasn't that. It was that I wasn't a fan of being taken hostage by a group of fairies.

You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.

We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.

Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

Two men look out through the same bars. One sees the mud and the other the stars.

The walls that caged me were not of this world, but were within my mind.

It was more like a form of claustrophobia -- a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden of somebody else's.

Halfway across town, Father Tibor Kasparian lay on the long hard cement cot that was what this jail cell had for a bed and wished he had a book. It could be any book. He didn't really think he could read right now, but it always made him feel better, and calmer, and more sane, to hold a book. He had never been able to understand people who did not read. He had never been able to understand how they held on to themselves.

There is no difference between being rescued and being captured.

E' necessaria la sventura per scavare certe misteriose miniere nascoste nell'intelligenza umana; serve la pressione per fare esplodere la polvere. La prigionia ha riunito in un punto solo tutte le mie facoltà, che fluttuavano quà e là, e sono venute a scontrarsi in uno spazio stretto: come sapete, dall'urto delle nubi scaturisce l'elettricità, dall'elettricità il lampo, dal lampo la luce

It's a kind of jail, the brain's mind. We've got these mysterious three-pound brains and they jail us.

Es una especie de cárcel, la mente del cerebro. Tenemos estos misteriosos cerebros de mil trescientos gramos, y nos encarcelan.

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

I feel always that I am a prisoner.

Hubo así dos historias: una, de índole criminal, hecha de cárceles, torturas, prostituciones, robos, muertes e incendios; otra, de carácter escénico, hecha de necedades y fábulas para consumo de patanes".

The inexorable facts closed in on him like prison-warders handcuffing a convict. There was no way out—none. He was a prisoner for life, and now his one ray of light was to be extinguished.

Granice was overcome by the futility of any further attempt to inculpate himself. He was chained to life - a 'prisoner of consciousness'.

Oh Jesus, thought Patrick, let me out of here. He imagined himself disappearing through the floor with a shovel and some bunk-bed slats, the theme music of The Great Escape humming in the air. He was crawling under the crematorium through fragile tunnels, when he felt himself being dragged backwards by Annette's maddening voice.