Quotes About Enclosure

Boundaries keep people out; mine served only to keep me in.

I guess the White House is kind of confining.

houses wall the path

I am not normally claustrophobic and my life was not in imminent peril, but something about this shining prison annoyed me out of all proportion to the situation itself.

My library was to me an utterly private space that both enclosed and mirrored me.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Yet though there is no visible barrier I know only too well that I am surrounded by unseen and impassable walls which tower into the highest domes of the zenith and sink many miles below the surface of the earth.

Whether you're beaten or pampered, fed the best foods or starved, kept in filth or kept clean, a cage is still a cage

Sequestration, sequestation - however you pronounce that word - and gridlock aren't all that bad.

Amory said to himself that there were essentially two sorts of people who through natural clarity or disillusion left the enclosure and sought the labyrinth.

the Bat sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn

The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

Akkora csúszómászó volt, hogy munkát vállalhatott volna egy terráriumban.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

Perhaps it was Helen's way of falling in love--a curious way to Margaret, whose agony and whose contempt of Henry were yet imprinted with his image. Helen forgot people. They were husks that had enclosed her emotion.

I feel very strongly that this modern fear of the home becoming non-existent can be countered only if those of us who want to be sure our little spot is really a home take very practical measures to be sure that it is just that, and not a collection of furniture sitting in some sort of enclosure being protected from wind and storm.

My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,Did all within this circle move!

As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers.

He would be relegated to a post best left fastened and buried.

Joe grinned. "We might never get Chet to leave this place!" Guests from the village began coming shortly after sunset. As the festivities got underway, torches were lighted to illuminate the area. One man arrived leading a bull and put it in the corral. Many of the younger villagers swarmed around the enclosure to see it.

I'm a cage, in search of a bird.

I am a cage in search of a bird

Yes, we are sure of it. These walls enclose a world. Here is continuity spinning a web from room to room, from year to year. It is safe in this house.