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Quotes About Confinement

For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.
~ David Foster Wallace
There is a tremendous amount of farting in prison.
~ Charlie Engle
Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.
~ John B. S. Haldane
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
~ Timothy Spall
Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
~ Imelda Staunton
Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles.
~ Ilona Andrews
[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.
~ George Orwell
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
~ Axel Munthe
You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.
~ Frederick Lenz
Make not your thoughts your prisons.
~ William Shakespeare
We are only enslaved in our mind.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It's alright. They never catch you twice." "Why wouldn't they?" "They never release you the first time.
~ Jamie O'Neill
locking the little scamp in the basement.
~ Jan Swafford
She was going to die. Emma knew it with complete certainty. She was trapped in
~ Jana Deleon
My throat feels hard and swollen, as if bulky words are trying to choke me.
~ Jane Johnson
There is no difference between being rescued and being captured.
~ Jane Mendelsohn
Perhaps, he thought, there was some strange satisfaction to be derived from confining savage animals here, given that the savagery outside this place was the kind that couldn't be confined.
~ Jane Thynne
the fear of being trapped between cars.
~ Janette Rallison
FLIGHT OF FOLLY. WOMAN TRAPPED IN CAGE OF OPEN DOORS.
~ Janette Turner Hospital
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
~ Janice Dickinson
Casi todo el mundo se avergüenza de su juventud, no es muy cierto que se añore como se dice, más bien se relega o rehúye y con facilidad o esfuerzo se confina el origen a la esfera de los malos sueños, o de las novelas, o de lo que no ha existido. La juventud se oculta, la juventud es secreta para quienes ya no nos conocen jóvenes.
~ Javier Marías
Es una especie de cárcel, la mente del cerebro. Tenemos estos misteriosos cerebros de mil trescientos gramos, y nos encarcelan.
~ E.L. Doctorow
I feel always that I am a prisoner.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
There were in her at the moment two beings, one drawing deep breaths of freedom and exhilaration, the other gasping for air in a little black prison-house of fears.
~ Edith Wharton