Quotes About Confinement

She hated walls. For her, they had always been the jaws of a trap. Ferro frowned at the bed. She hated beds, and couches, and cushions. Soft things make you soft, and she did not need them.

It is easy to smile at the bull you know is chained.

It was bad enough to be stuck in a pipe with a porcupine, worse to be in there with a lunatic, even if the lunatic happened to be herself.

In the winter, when you're cold, the world extends no more than a foot in any direction.

The pills I take are a paperweight. All they do is pin the fantasies down. But they're still there, and any strong wind that comes along, I can feel them rattling around, trying to slip free.

My dear," Marcus said, "you are supposed to soothe the beast until you get the cage on him, not tease him into a rage while he's still unfettered.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

Die meisten verarbeiten den größten Teil der Zeit, um zu leben, und das bißchen, das ihnen von Freiheit übrig bleibt, ängstigt sie so, daß sie alle Mittel aufsuchen, um es loszuwerden...

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

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

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

Matthew had called her harmless. Harmless. And being with him made Frankie feel squashed into a box - a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or as powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with. Frankie wanted to be a force.

It's a tiny box, Mirren. Me and Mummy. Me and my pills. Me and my pain. I don't want to live there anymore.

The spell was simple and I'd said half of it before she even figured out that it was a spell. Since you like bubbles so, In a bubble you must go. In that bubble you will stay Till your bubbles go away. Sound can't pass from inside out Even if you scream or shout. If you want to be set free, End your spell, that's the key

I wonder how long they'll keep me here? Forever, I hope. Until I get cured. I hope they won't cure me; I vow I won't be cured. It's a great deal too pleasant to be mad, and I'll stay so.

It makes a difference, doesn't it, whether we fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

Oh, fence me out if you like! Fence me out as much as you like! But never in. Oh Harcourt, never in.

Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.