Quotes About Confinement

Her kad?n, bir erke?in üzerindeki gücü ne kadar fazlaysa, gitmenin tek yolunun da kaçmak oldu?unu hisseder. Kraliçe oldu?u için kaçak olmak zorundad?r.

This house could have been a prison or a hospital, but a prison where they locked up the innocent to prevent them from suffering, or a hospital where one goes to recover from the labor of life. And Monelle was both the jailer and the nurse.

Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her chamber, illuminating everything around her in silvery light. That was when she noticed for the first time that there were bars on her window.

The situation would be very much the same if we should place a teacher who, according to our conception of the term, is scientifically prepared, in one of the public schools where the children are repressed in the spontaneous expression of their personality till they are almost like dead beings. In such a school the children, like butterflies mounted on pins, are fastened each to his place, the desk, spreading the useless wings of barren and meaningless knowledge which they have acquired.

To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we've hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.

I'm trapped behind a wall of fear and fear itself.

Fear is the limit of existence.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.