Quotes About Imprisoned

He lowered the goblet, and looked into it. The black water shifted as his hand trembled, and the surface glittered like the facets of polished stone. The noise of the water as it touched the sides was like the distant cries of the imprisoned.

The French not only refused any co-operation from us German anti-Fascists, they locked us up.

She had a good memory, too good, perhaps, since it held her imprisoned in the past.

He had been imprisoned inside the least secure of the residences, and it was deserted at this late hour, as expected.

3 Una mente "aprisionada" no es libre porque está poseída, o refrenada, por sí misma.

But the horror that's destroying me today is less noble and more corrosive. It's a longing to be free of wanting to have thoughts, a desire to never have been anything, a conscious despair in every cell of my soul's body. It's the sudden feeling of being imprisoned in an infinite cell. Where can one think of fleeing, if the cell is everything?

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

the desperation of a mind unable to discipline itself and descending, therefore, into the carnivalesque. A mind imprisoned by itself, serving a life sentence.

Only by thinking I had freedom had I come to understand how imprisoned I was.

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

The goldfinch sings in its cage between the curtains upon the window-shelf. Can it be that it is conscious of the approaching springtime? Ah, it may be that the nearness of the spring is similarly felt by the old walnut bough from which my chair was made, which now creaks to the goldfinch's song. And it may further be that, by means of the song and the creaking, the imprisoned goldfinch and the walnut made into a chair understand each other.

My God is not imprisoned anywhere, not in the Bible nor the tabernacle. Real Presence is everywhere, and those with the hearts of children revel in it.

For that he was a spirit too delicate To act their earthy and abhorr'd commands, Refusing their grand hests, they did confine him By help of their most potent ministers, And in their most unmitigable rage, Into a cloven pine; within which rift Imprisoned, he didst painfully remain. . . . Shakespeare. The Tempest.

The actuality of these spiritual qualities is thus imprisoned, though their potentiality be not quite destroyed; and thus a crass, extended, impenetrable, passive, divisible, unintelligent substance is generated, which we call matter.Cheyn.Phil. Prin.

So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower(...)She was stuck up there(...)So the only thing was to jump.

But a favor has to be answered by another favor, and the courtesies became a chain that imprisoned us.

A fickle goddess Thought at times-- Try ne'er so hard we catch her not. We try to think: 'tis all in vain-- Imprisoned never is a thought. Like lightning flashing through the clouds, It comes--a light, and then is gone, A star which falls adown through space, Again it comes as morning dawn.

Reason is imprisoned here, and passions run wild. Like the fires of the prairie, once lighted, they are at the mercy of every wind, and must burn, till they have consumed all that is combustible within their remorseless grasp.

I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.

Ashley was imprisoned forever by words which were stronger than any jail.

It is not for you, happy you, who live with liberty, live as free to indulge as to form your wishes, I say it is not for you to find tongues in the wind. It is for the imprisoned Sibella to feed on such illusions, to waft herself on the pinions of fancy beyond Mr. Valmont's barriers, within which, for the two last years, her fetters have been insupportable:—for two years, except when she saw you, has she been joyless.

He was oppressed by the grim conceit that he himself still slept within the matted thicket, imprisoned by the green bastions of the Roman fort. He had never come out, but a changeling had gone down the hill, and now stirred about the earth.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.