Quotes About Confinement

Men who are not free always idealize their bondage.

Intotdeauna omul neliber îÅŸi idealizeaz? nelibertatea.

Doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!

We might get out sometime, but she was locked up forever in that body.

You could also request to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to request to get out too. A nurse would look through the chicken wire and decide if you were ready to come out. Somewhat like looking at a cake through the glass of the oven door.

The meat was bruised, bleeding, and imprisoned in a tight wrapping. And, though I had a six-month respite from thinking about it, so was I.

tantalus was locked, but just as Phin braced himself

I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key; in his eye's darkroom I can see my X-rayed heart, dissected body: I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard s study.

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

They had the windows fixed so you couldn't really open them and lean out, and for some reason this made me furious.

At first I wondered why the room felt so safe. Then I realized it was because there were no windows.

They want you to be in a special ward," my mother said. "They don't have that sort of ward at our hospital." "I liked it where I was." My mother's mouth tightened. "You should have behaved better, then." "What?" "You shouldn't have broken that mirror. Then maybe they'd have let you stay." But of course I knew the mirror had nothing to do with it

Não teria feito a menor diferença se ela tivesse me dado uma passagem para Europa ou um cruzeiro ao redor do mundo, porque onde quer que eu estivesse - fosse o convés de um navio, um café parisiense ou Bangcoc -, estaria sempre sob a mesma redoma de vidro, sendo lentamente cozida em meu próprio ar viciado.

Sabía que debía estarle agradecida a la señora Guinea, sólo que no podía sentir nada. Si la señora Guinea me hubiera dado un pasaje a Europa, o un viaje alrededor del mundo, no hubiera habido la menor diferencia para mí, porque donde quiera que estuviera sentada -en la cubierta de un barco o en la terraza de un café en París o en Bangkok- estaría sentada bajo la misma campana de cristal, agitándome en mi propio aire viciado.

under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air

can our dreams ever blur the intransigent lines which draw the shape that shuts us in?

You are a prisoner of sorts, and yet you have made yourself so.

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

Existen muchas clases de prisiones. Jarnauga

The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience.

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

It is. And yet so few really are free. Nearly all people live in prisons of their own making, regardless of their faith, creed, sex or race.

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.