Quotes About Confinement

Kings who become prisoners are not far from death.

I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat.

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.

Why do you accept being treated like an inmate?

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane.

I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it.

Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.

'Bigg Boss' is one show that I can never be a part of. I am very restless as a person, so keeping me locked won't be a good idea.

Convictions are prisons.

dearest—every person is a prison and also a recess.

I've been to Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney and it's all barbed wire, it's like a big jail.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

Wolves want to be wolves. Servals want to be servals. Bears want to be bears. And it is impossible to be a wolf or a serval or a bear when living in a cage.

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.

I can never thoroughly appreciate meals on ships because, away from land, I feel my autonomy is restricted.

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

Svetlana always said that the notorious brutality of the Orthodox priests, who punished their students with solitary confinement for days in dungeonlike cells, had shaped her father's penchant for cruelty.