Quotes About Confinement

Sometimes your body feels like a cage for all the stuff inside. You paint your nails, braid your hair, and buy the right kind of jeans, but none of it is really about you.

Waarom zou hij zich verzetten? Uit morele overwegingen? Kom nu; als je daaraan deed, kon je beter de rest van je leven thuis blijven zitten met dichtgespijkerde ramen en de deur op de grendel - dan had je een kleine kans dat je een fatsoenlijk mens bleef; alleen was er dan niemand die wist hoe fatsoenlijk je was.

La curiosité l'avait désormais enchaîné.

As always, the passengers, having felt the squalor, the suspense, the scale of confinement, applauded when the wheels touched the ground.

I sit on my narrow bunk and caress my long yellow toenails and stare at my walls.

Lady Pamela Sutton stared at the dreary government-issued posters on the wall of her small cubicle in Hut 3.

They wouldn't let me live and I killed. Maybe it ain't fair to kill, and I reckon I really didn't want to kill.

Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.

That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.

I know something that's in a cage," said Rob, pushing the words past the tightness in his throat. Willie May nodded her head, but she wasn't listening. She was looking past Rob, past the white sheet, past the laundry room, past the Kentucky Star. "Who don't?" she said finally. "Who don't know something in a cage?

From here there is never not a day without Master's shadow across my life—a solid bar, a locked turnstile that brings me up short, trapped on the other side of where I thought I was going, the place I once imagined I would be.

Jess wouldn't argue that, but he saw her as a beautiful wild creature who had been caught for a moment in that dirty old cage of a schoolhouse, perhaps by mistake.

always thought killers should be locked away in tiny cells with nothing to do but think about their crimes until they die.

A G-Rated story? About taking some deformed baby and locking him up? And if it was true, and this poor guy had been locked up in there for decades, and someone threw in a perfectly good woman, what the hell do you think he'd do with her? Play Parcheesi?

There is no freedom from the prison of the mind.

There is no escape from the prison of the mind.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

The world we are is a secret prison and the secret prison is power.

The only prison we can be is prison of our mind.

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

That means, in turn, that this is an experience which shatters time and liberates people from the confinement of time by at once recalling all that has gone before and anticipating all that is to come.