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Quotes About Imprisonment

the police in the city really knew how to hold human beings trapped in cages, even women like Manman who was accused of having wings of flame.
~ Edwidge Danticat
A life had taken shape, after my arrest: for years, I had let it sprout, joyously absurd, naive and shameless. In that life you were never carried off, petted, saved; you stood up straight, in the dark cages of the paddy wagon, or sat up on the hard wooden slats. But in that life, all the same, you could get your kicks in secret in the certainty of each day's routine. My new freedom imprisons and paralyzes me.
~ Albertine Sarrazin
Señor, la jaula se ha vuelto pájaro.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Un color invariable rige al melancólico: su interior es un espacio de color de luto; nada pasa allí, nadie pasa. Es una escena sin decorados donde el yo inerte es asistido por el yo que sufre por esa inercia. Este quisiera liberar al prisionero, pero cualquier tentativa fracasa como hubiera fracasado Teseo si, además de ser él mismo, hubiese sido, también, el Minotauro; matarlo, entonces, habría exigido matarse.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Vamos en una cárcel racional que navega dentro de un loco.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I am a prisoner of love.
~ Alex Flinn
I was a prisoner, but the prison library was excellent. On one table in the corner, I found an e-reader with a note that said, "In case I forgot anything." I don't like to think I can be bought, but if I could, this guy definitely knew the currency. Roses and books—I could survive in these rooms forever.
~ Alex Flinn
The Dimensional box concept is used to entrap us, never believe they are real.
~ Alexis Ayala
My father was released from jail, after more than three years of imprisonment, in 1971. Without wasting any time, he wanted to get engaged in theatre. He asked me to join and also enquired if any of my friends were interested.
~ Radha Ravi
Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.
~ Woody Harrelson
We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.
~ Walid Jumblatt
Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.
~ Wynonna Judd
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'
~ Derek Walcott
The spirit of Burzum never changed, but my ability to make music changed dramatically when I was imprisoned. It is more or less impossible to record music in prison, and the only music I could record was electronic music, when I was allowed to have a synthesizer for a few months in 1994 or 1995 and in 1998.
~ Varg Vikernes
Like, we've been together for a while now, ever since he trapped me in this weird ball prison, I have been forgiving.
~ Red Smith
Il se trouvait prisonnier du passé, enchaîné par des ombres !
~ René Barjavel
I am like a prisoner who happens on enjoy an imaginary freedom in his dreams and who subsequently begins to suspect that he is asleep and, afraid of being awakened, conspires silently with his agreeable illusions.
~ Rene Descartes
The lady hasn't lost it yet—the sound of freedom. When she laughs, you can hear the wind in the trees and the splash of water hitting pavement. You can sense the gentle caress of rain on your face and how laughter sounds in the open air, all the things those of us in this dungeon can never feel.
~ Rene Denfeld
But he wouldn't find me in the office, sitting there like patience in the hoosegow.
~ Rex Stout
you parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage. Every time you talk about what you don't love, you are adding another bar to the cage and you are locking yourself away from all the good.
~ Rhonda Byrne
The next time American pilots bailed out into the hands of Communist troops was in Korea about five years later, and the reception this time was imprisonment and torture, which makes the level of wartime cooperation all the more amazing and the decline of the relationship into enmity all the more shocking and costly.
~ Richard Bernstein
When I see your picture in its frame, A strait jacket, pity rises in me, And stronger than pity, revulsion. It is as if you had never been. Nobody in the world can know your love, You are strapped to the nothingness of ages, Nobody can will you into life, It is as if you had never been. I cannot break your anonymity, The absolute has imprisoned you, Most sentient, most prescient, most near. It is as if you had never been.
~ Richard Eberhart