Quotes About Confinement

He is exiled in a school where to often his capacity for constructive growth and self realization is repressed.

How many human beings remain in this world, unvanquished and at liberty in plains like these? So few, so few. Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains.

She had been laced into a thing that she could only imagine was for magical purposes, meant to confine her heart and her breath in a sort of cage to hold her forever like a shut fist that would never open.

There are too many scenes where you think, It's a bit much. The movie crowds you; it doesn't give you room to have an honest emotion.

Her freedom was worse than any chains.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." ( America's Medieval Women , Harper's Magazine, August 1938)

You are free to move about the cabin. Unless your hands are duct-taped together.

I'm not actually going to blow you out of the airlock Roberts. I just need you in a quiet place where you won't blurt out something stupid at the wrong time near the wrong watch.

Balzac clearly is haunted by these Faustian figures, who seek to go beyond what is permitted to ordinary humans, only to reach an impasse where their very medium of expression is blocked or destroyed.

You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.