Quotes About Confinement

You have brought your own ideas with you into the gaol,' Miss Haxby said, after a moment. 'But our ways at Millbank—as you can see—are rather narrow ones.

And yet, I seemed to feel my eyes bound, too, with bands of silk. And at my throat there was a velvet collar.

going to sea is like going to prison with the added possibility of drowning.

The sounds were trapped in the tank with him. His fingers pawed at the wet plastic but could find no hold.

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.

Privacy on a ship at sea is about as real as fucking fairy piss

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.

A man could not be in two places at the same time unless he were a bird.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

When a prisoner of style escapes, it's called an evasion.

that dismal prison house within whose dungeons so many young faces put on the wrinkles of age

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whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.

missing the most obvious fact of all that what I hoped to lock out I've only locked in here with me.

Quite a few people have slept and suffered within those walls.

Confining us to the comforts of a well-lit home gives our varied imaginations a chance to fill the adjacent darkness with questions and demons.

For as we know, there cannot be an escape.

Els zoos, com diu John Berger en el seu fantàstic assaig «Per què mirem els animals?», estan fets perquè els animals hi estiguin exposats tothora a la nostra mirada (encara que els zoos actuals s'han «humanitzat» -o potser hauria de dir animalitzat?-, en disposar zones ocultes a la mirada de l'espectador), però també perquè no puguin mai retornar-nos la nostra mirada, o en tot cas, retornar-nos-la en situació d'igualtat.

Mary wanted to get out of here and on to another plane of life; but these words weren't going to help her out. They had been put together with only one thing in mind: to lock her in.

Her fear kept her as caged as her canaries. The glass windows were no different than their metal bars.

siempre se disfruta de libertad a menos que estemos encarcelados