Quotes About Confinement

It is shocking how much a day-care center is like a prison. They both have security cameras with walled exercise yards. Prisons are permanent day cares for people permanently in time-out - convicts.

I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.

No one can say, 'I have dropped out - I am no longer in the system.' When you're in prison, you're even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don't transform the system as an absolute thing.

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

Kako joj objasniti zatvoreni svijet u kojem živim, to da sam ja problem, uzrok nesre?e ljudi oko mene?

Sometimes even when the cell door is flung open, the prisoner chooses not to escape.

responsabilité. Parfois, lorsque la porte de la cellule s'ouvre, le prisonnier choisit de ne pas s'évader.

In the jungle I was free, yet the place was like a jail without walls.

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

A tethered thing is a dead thing...

Although I am able to walk about freely, I am a prisoner in my skin.

You're just an object locked up in the house.

A camera is an opening in a box: that is the best emblem of the fact that a camera holding an object is holding the rest of the world away. The camera has been praised for extending the senses; it may, as the world goes, deserve more praise for confining them, leaving room for thought.

Plus un esprit se limite, plus il touche par ailleurs à l'infini.

For the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

There was nothing here to distract me from my thoughts, my delusions, my morbid recapitulations.And that was exactly what they intended – I was to retch and retch on my own thoughts until they choked me.

For the more a man limits himself, the more he is close to the infinite.

But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.

Flora was pleasantly surprised to hear this, and for a second wondered if the women novelists had been misinformed about confinements? But no: she recollected that they usually left themselves a loophole by occasionally creating a primitive woman, a creature who was as close to the earth as a bloomy greengage and rather like one to look at and talk to, and this greengage creature never had any bother with her confinements, but just took them in her stride, as it were.

The daughter of Sin was determined to go To the dark house, dwelling of Erkalla's god, To the house which those who enter cannot leave, On the road where travelling is one-way only, To the house where those who enter are deprived of light, Where dust is their food, clay their bread. They see no light, they dwell in darkness, They are clothed like birds, with feathers.

I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!

There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.