Quotes About Confinement

Those who are roped into bed at night often fall into delusions of flight.

Doy un paso atrás otra vez. La puerta está atrancada. Ahora hay una forma menos de entrar. Por supuesto, también hay una forma menos de salir.

In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative.

Only two of the prisoners were found sane enough to be hanged, and the rest were committed to various institutions.

He let the boy run about for a week until he began stumbling and hurting himself, and then he shut him in an attic room across the hall from his mother's. The way they screamed at each other from behind their locked doors was very terrible, especially to little Merwin, who fancied they talked in some terrible language that was not of earth.

But in that instant of curiosity was born the madly unreasoning desire which has brought me to this hell of confinement.

The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.

NIkad se nisam zamajavao nacelima vernosti ili okovima tradicionalnog. Cestitost je patolosko nasilje a dobrota prepreka.

I stayed locked inside a windowless environment, sickened by the lack of sunshine like some dour owl.

I don't really like living in a very small space, like a tour bus, even though I have an amazing tour bus, and I've had multiple tour buses. It's still not a lot of room.

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

I spend long, long time in shoe box.

Like most people confined to an institution, she had been divested of a past life.

trembled. I wanted to throw a handful of black pepper in their faces, to throw lye on them, to scream that they were dirty, scummy peckerwoods, but I knew I was as clearly imprisoned behind the scene as the actors outside were confined to their roles.

mad as a bee caught under a pickle jar

She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower. And? Eddis prompted. Well, said Eugenides, it's a challenge.

Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How sad! How could that compare with this? And what is safe? You were not safe on your little farm. War came to you and took all your safety away! If I am to be in this world, I want more than to be a hound upon the game board, tucked away in a corner until the jackals come and sweep all away!

but he dared not move. He was a whipped