Quotes About Confinement

Beyond the light was that distant line of horizon she had glimpsed from on high—a line like a solitary prison bar, needing no intersection with other bars to keep her jailed. And she decided then and there that she would not stay here and be mocked; she would not.

I will remove these restraints. And leave this cell, with the door open, and retire to my living quarters. I will speak of this encounter to no one.

This way and stop looking so positive: optimism doesn't fit a prisoner's profile. Poe obediently lowered his head and adopted as morose an expression as possible.

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me!

I know every inch of this cell. This cell knows every inch of me. Except one.

She wanted to leave the house and dance the world away until she fell down dead. For her, every passing minute meant more lost time. Inside the house, she was condemned to live a cloistered life, whereas outside those confining walls, the entire world was enjoying itself. It was like an eternal party...

I'm in my junior year but I can't take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me.

Walls work both ways. They keep people out...but they keep people in, too.

The box was beginning to feel like another person in my house, a person with too much power for the space she took up.

To reproach in a modern tyranny a people as a whole for failing to revolt is as if one would reproach a prisoner for failing to escape from a heavily guarded prison.

WHO AM I?2 Who am I? They often tell me I stepped from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, like a Squire from his country house.

Peu à peu, ils ont pris l'habitude d'être au fort, ils y sont restés emprisonnés, ils n'ont plus été capables d'en bouger. Vieux à trente ans, en fait.

Satori," ripeté Xue Xin. "Se i nostri pensieri ci imprigionano, è ragionevole che possano anche liberarci.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

E' come se dentro me ci fosse una creatura incazzata che scalpita per uscire. Sono anni che mi cresce dentro e ormai occupa tutto lo spazio, mi preme sui polmoni, sul petto, sulla gola. Io faccio di tutto per ricacciarla indietro. Non voglio farla uscire. Non posso farla uscire". "Raccontami di un giorno perfetto

The table and chair legs were like bars of the cage around me. This time they weren't keeping me in, they were keeping her out.

It's the rules!" he snapped. "They cage the animals at night! It's the rules.

People who were normally very organized and in control could fight extremely hard to preserve that control, including reducing their world to a tiny space which could not harm them.

Even paradise can be suffocating

just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing.