Quotes About Confinement

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

I'd wall up my loathsome body like a prison, blind to the sound of life, not just the sight.

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

The feeling of being both trapped and free at the same time is the most mind twisting feeling of all.

Rather be a thin dog that is free than a fat one chained

Rather be a thin dog free, than to be a fat one chained

my dearin an idea, by an idea, living through in idea, we are our own prisoners .

A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world…jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..

In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

The walls that we build for self-protection become the walls of self-imprisonment later!!!!

As one who long in populous city pent.

Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.

All the time he had spent in institutions, sheltered from the world, when in reality there was no greater threat to him than the institutions themselves.

That seemed crazy on the face of it, but slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.

When children are stripped of a primary experience base as confinement schooling must do to justify its existence, the natural sequence of learning is destroyed, a sequence which puts experience first.

A escola é uma sentença de prisão de doze anos em que maus hábitos são o único currículo verdadeiramente aprendido.

Trapped children, like trapped rats, need close management.

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars … compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.

Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.