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Quotes About Confinement

The enclosed space trapped her anxiety, amplifying her fear.
~ James Rollins
Would their relocation be a lifelong prison sentence?
~ James Rollins
The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than anything.
~ Donna Tartt
basketball courts ringed with barbed-wire fence.
~ Donna Tartt
unbearable claustrophobia of the soul
~ Donna Tartt
consumed by a more general sense of dread, of imprisonment within the dreary round of school and home: circumstances
~ Donna Tartt
He was not his own master when he left Russia,' Sybilla said. 'Nor was he his own master when you brought him to France. He is like a river forced into glass and driven from stem to stem of a conjurer's maze without ever reaching the sea.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Trapped like a trap in a trap
~ Dorothy Parker
My capacity for happiness, he added, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
~ Douglas Adams
My capacity for happiness,' he added, 'you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.
~ Douglas Adams
Benim mutluluk kapasitemi bir kibrit kutusuna s??d?rabilirsin. Hem de içindeki kibritleri bile ç?karmadan.
~ Douglas Adams
This was the very limit beyond which none of them had ever speculated, or even known that there was any speculation to be done.
~ Douglas Adams
He giggled and sniggered. He would have laughed out loud but he didn't have the room.
~ Douglas Adams
Benim mutluluk kapasitemi, diye ekledi, bir kibrit kutusuna s??d?rabilirsin, hem de içindeki kibritleri bile ç?karmadan.
~ Douglas Adams
You don't believe magic is possible in lives lived within traditional boundaries.
~ Douglas Coupland
It's called 'designer prisoner-of-conscience labour.
~ Douglas Coupland
The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
~ Agatha Christie
I loved her- I always loved her- no matter what she was-I wanted her safe- not shut up- a prisoner for life, eating her heart out. And we did keep her safe- for many years" Phillip Stark
~ Agatha Christie
And catch a fox And put him in a box And never let him go.
~ Agatha Christie
Vera cried: 'Don´t you see? We´re the Zoo...Last night, we were hardly human any more. We´re the Zoo...
~ Agatha Christie
You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame
~ Aimee Mann
We are Prisoners of this Body. We are Prisoners of this Mind. Who are we? On Realization, the Truth we will find!
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
She was made for her lord. Nobody is asking her if she wants him. It is bitter twisting to be shut up with a person you are not liking very much. I think she is often longing for the time when she was flowers on the mountain, and it is making her cruel, as the rose is growing thorns.
~ Alan Garner
None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.
~ Alan Moore