Quotes About Imprisonment

An escape was impossible, so he lost unconsciousness when anyone entered the room.

And, you are no doubt familiar with the 1983 Supreme Court decision, the name escapes me right now, in which the Court ruled that before a person can be thrown in jail for not paying a fine it must be proven that he or she was willfully not paying. In other words, he could pay but he refused. All this and more, right?

Unit Nine is far away from the other units, with enough chain link and razor wire around it to stop Ike on the beaches of Normandy.

six hundred nobles were captured, including the constable and four of his sons, who were imprisoned.

After almost eleven months of captivity, Mary was free again.

In late January 1569, she was taken on a long journey south to Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!

Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.

Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

To be sentenced to jail because of your faith in God is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society

Ein goldener Käfig ist und bleibt ein Käfig.

He is too young to know himself a prisoner.

It was Daedalus who answered. A golden cage is still a cage.

Une cage dorée restera toujours une cage

Una jaula de oro no deja de ser jaula.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Le désespoir, c'est comme la prison, la mine ou l'usine. Ça vous lâche jamais.

In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled mass of details of fact and falsehood, I should never unravel the truth: and that it would always be so, unless I were to shut her up in prison (but prisoners escape) until the end.

Out of such prison, though Spirits of purest light,   Purest at first, now gross by sinning grown.

May you come to recognize That though your body is imprisoned, No one can imprison your mind. May all the time you have on your hands Bring you into new friendship with your mind

There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.

She'd been caged for far too long.

I'll tell ya one thing -- the jail house is jus' a kind a way a drivin' a guy slowly nuts. See? An' they go nuts, an' you see 'em an' hear 'em, an' pretty soon you don' know if you're nuts or not. When they get to screamin' in the night sometimes you think it's you doin' the screamin'--an' sometimes it is.