Quotes About Confinement

In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

Half of the days in 2014, I had to confine my daughter to my home like a prisoner because the air quality in Beijing was so poor. One morning, I saw my daughter banging on the window... The day will come when she asks me, 'Why do you keep me here? What is going to hurt me when I go outside?'

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference.

Imaginary prisoners are still prisoners.

But how do you know who's a watcher and who's a prisoner?" I asked, pulling into the empty parking lot. "That's the point. Even the watchers are prisoners.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the nurse's office? I know it'd be a tight fit, but it would be sort of perfect.

Through the fish-eyed lens of tear-stained eyes I can barely define the shape of this moment in time and far from flying high in clear blue skies I'm spiralling down to the hole in the ground where I hide.

Quelque chose a été enfermé en moi, par erreur, dans la peau d'un homme.

He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules.

You undergo your own incarceration. You may witness your demise piece by piece. You may be one kind of fool who never gets enough or another who gets too much.

I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room.

No matter what they died to me, it would still be a 'life sentence' to be a white woman in the rong skin. sentenced to be white was my fate.

Hjalmar ... is holding him, he'd put the handcuff on him ... one, not two ... he only had one ...

Un fou, ce n'est que les idées ordinaires d'un homme mais bien enfermées dans une tête

Os loucos são livres e vivem presos por isso.

He stood pressed against the inside wall of the cupboard, clutching his knife, rigid with terror, but defiant.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

The first time we spoke, Mr. Ambraysas told me, 'Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

Assim é que cada louco furioso era trancado em uma alcova na própria casa, e não curado, mas descurado até que a morte o vinha desfraldar do benefício da vida.

A Casa Verde é um cárcere privado – disse um médico sem clínica.

tive um daqueles meus impulsos que nunca chegavam à execução: foi atirar à rua caixão, defunto e tudo.

Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.