Quotes About Confinement

It was as if she had once been almost smothered and then allowed to live only if she limited her vocabulary and breathed hardly at all.

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

The Prisoner All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out of!

All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out of!

Over these things I could not see; These were the things that bounded me; And I could touch them with my hand, Almost, I thought, from where I stand. And all at once things seemed so small My breath came short, and scarce at all.

If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.

What are you in for, Rev'rend, anyway? Me, son? My body's here but the spirit's free as a bluebird. Okay, then why is your body here? Well now, the Judge he calls it assault. I done hit a man and he falls down. Didn't hit him hard but he falls down like a log. Maybe he wasn't standin very good.

Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up.

You can check out anytime you like,But you can never leave.

How does a plague start inside a sealed disc that has had no contact with any other living thing for almost six and a half decades?

He would be relegated to a post best left fastened and buried.

Tyranny, he once remarked, was a delightful place, but there was no way out of it.

If you think it's hard getting in, you should try getting out.

It was as if she had been locked up in a lunatic asylum for so long that she had forgotten she was actually mad.

It often seemed to Eric that he was trapped and that he had been from the moment of his birth.

He once said to me that it was like being in one of those Russian prisons where they lock you up without telling you the length of your sentence.

One day, he knew, he would have had enough. He wouldn't be able to control himself any more. And then what? He had no idea.

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures.

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.

She would never tell him and he could stay in his room and never get any fresh air and die if he liked!