Quotes About Confinement

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She wondered if she should have explained herself more clearly. She could not explain herself at all. There were no words, no permitted words, to explain anything that she wanted to say. All the words that could have communicated it had been banned, not only from her mouth but even from her mind. She was reduced to mere actions, which are both more and less than words.

Small places make for small lives

Able was I ere I saw Elba

And in the stockyard, beasts did climb their barriers.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self

I will take away your means of escape.

Banning not only confines one physically, it imprisons one's spirit. it induces a kind of psychological claustrophobia that makes one yearn not only for freedom of movement but spiritual escape...This insidious effect of bans was that at a certain point one began to think that the opponent was not without but within.

It's the outside world that's the prison. The outside world of jobs and cars and cell phones and apartments and grocery stores. Appropriate clothing, plans for a Saturday night, loneliness.

Underground parking garages, like the interior of submarines, are malevolent in their ugliness and lack of human comfort, in their machine-oil smell, their lack of natural light, their sense of confinement.

Port Central had become a sophisticated prison for its inmates, while the natives roamed a whole world.

Command isolated her more effectively than a deadly disease.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Quienes gimen sobre la estrechez del medio en que viven pretenden que los acontecimientos, los vecinos, los paisajes, les den la sensibilidad y la inteligencia que la naturaleza les negó.

Prison is a process, a succession of imprisonments. At first it operates only on a physical level, restricting your movement. Later, it extends to the psychological plane, encompassing your very perception. You come to exclude all thoughts, all visions of the free world.

Hayat, dü?ünceleri tutan bir hapishanedir.

The Human Contradiction held them. Intelligence at the service of hierarchical behavior. They were not free.

JDAHYA WOULD NOT LEAVE her. As much as she had hated her solitary confinement, she longed to be rid of him. He fell silent for a while and she wondered whether he might be sleeping—to the degree that he did sleep. She lay down herself, wondering whether she could relax enough to sleep with him there. It would be like going to sleep knowing there was a rattlesnake in the room, knowing she could wake up and find it in her bed.

Back into your cage, Lilith?" Jdahya asked softly.

The frog in the well can't communicate with the ocean creatures, as it knows the depth of the sky. It's because the frog lived inside a cramped and small space, so he knows better than anyone, how precious freedom is.

They pretend they're keeping everyone out, when in fact they're locked in.

The prison is not outside, but inside each of us. Perhaps we simply don't know how to live without it.

The prison is not outside, but inside each of us.

?ycie w t?umie jest gorsze ni? wi?zienie.