Quotes About Confinement

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Security is a kind of death.

In prison we become the prisoners even of our dreams.

They got it wrong when they called it "the closet." This was a prison. Solitary confinement. I was locked inside, inside myself, dark and afraid and alone. (Chapter. 23)

Out of sight, out of mind. My philosophy of life in a test tube.

Not much else to do in there. There's no TV.

There are cities that are damned for some people by the mere fact that they seem created to close off the distances that are the only reason for living.

Me tiré contra la puerta antes de que fuera demasiado tarde, la cerré de golpe apoyando el cuerpo; felizmente la llave estaba puesta de nuestro lado y además corrí el gran cerrojo para mas seguridad. Fui a la cocina, calenté la pavita, y cuando estuve de vuelta con la bandeja del mate le dije a Irene: - Tuve que cerrar la puerta del pasillo. Han tomado la parte del fondo.

Acababa de descrubirlo, porque la gente dentro de un auto detenido casi desaparece, se pierde en esa mísera jaula privada de la belleza que le dan el movimiento y el peligro.

Inside the walls

Ladies from fine old Imperial families shouldn't sleep in tents and shit in ditches. Exactly what they were supposed to do all day nobody had quite figured out yet; be put away in cupboards when not in use seemed to be the prevailing opinion.

Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.

The suffering of being imprisoned rests in the fact that it is impossible, at any time, to escape from oneself.

He also knew that there is no escape from power like his, no exit, no way out of the predicament that being always on creates; there is only death.

Man's greatest dilemma is that he lives in a prison and he believes that he is free.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can't make music.

Taking the game away is probably the closest thing to jail that I'll get to.

I am not afraid to go to jail.

I really don't like being in jail.

Going to jail is beyond what anyone thinks it is.

There's nothing good about jail. Having your freedom taken off you... It's nothing to be proud of and it's not any fun no matter how you passed the time.

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

Because you could not master whatever enmeshed you you became its slave - You learned this bitterly, early. In order not to become its slave you had to become its master. You became its master. Even as master, of course, you remain its slave.