Quotes About Confinement

It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity," he wrote. "A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.

Now I'm in a top-secret government base somewhere in the middle of fucking Iowa, waiting to find out what the hell is happening. In short—I'm totally losing my shit.

I was curled up in an old sleeping bag in the corner of the trailer's tiny laundry room, wedged into the gap between the wall and the dryer.

but the reception inside the van was for shit, since it was buried under a huge mound of dense metal.

Les livres sont la plus grande contradiction des barreaux. Ils ouvrent le plafond de la cellule du prisonnier allongé sur son lit.

He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.

My voluntary confinement here is restricted less by time than by my earthly existence. In essence I am dead -- dead for my children -- dead for my work ... I am dead but not yet buried, or buried alive -- whichever, the consequences are nearly identical ...

Yank: Sure! Lock me up! Put me in a cage! Dat's de on'y answer yuh know. G'wan, lock me up!Policeman: What you been doin'?Yank: Enough to gimme life for! I was born, see? Sure, dat's de charge. Write it in de blotter. I was born, get me!

If you accuse me of superstition, then you should call what he has rolling around his head madness. He'll end up in prison or as a writer, which is just as bad – a prisoner of his own stories.

I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you have to rebel against it at some point.

300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.

And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.

I quickly found that I didn't really fit into 'gay culture,' as identified by many gay people, and that it can be just as confining as straight culture, not least in the way that bisexual people are told that 'they can't make up their mind.'

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Not even when it had my name did I really think about what it would be like to pass days and months and years in those boxes, to be on the other side of the treatment,

Sanotaan: rajusti syöksyvä virta on väkivaltainen. Kukaan ei sano: virtaa kahlitseva uoma on väkivaltainen.

Do rio que tudo arrasta se diz que é violento, mas ninguém diz violentas as margens que o comprimem.

Once again, I had made my world a very small place, and I didn't want to live there.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

If you wall a country or a civilization, you misshape it, too, as certainly as if you strangled it with bindings. You have built the wall not just outside but inside, and what you have walled up will be grotesque and stunted, whether you look at it from the moon or elsewhere.

The wrists will then also be shackled