Quotes About Confinement

They can only burrow a few metres deep.

I knew then the taste of true fear. It tastes of dark places deep in your stomach and holds you by the neck.

While the body may be trapped in this place, the mind is always free to roam wherever it feels safe.

All boys belong in insane asylums.

I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can't do anything about it.

Progress was taking nature and putting a box around it.

You cannot keep all men confined all the time," Abraham said, "not without creating a strong prison. So instead you allow some measure of freedom for those who really, really want it. That way, they do not become rebels. If you do it right.

What is happening? The king put Dalinar's heir in here?" "The king didn't have anything to do with it," the jailer said. "Brightlord Adolin insisted. So long as you were in here, he wouldn't leave. We tried to stop him, but the man's a prince. We can't storming make him do anything, not even leave. He locked himself away in the cell and we just had to live with it." Impossible.

Everywhere I step, I find only corners," Father whispered. "Slowly, they trap me.

We pile one skyscraper next to another, so the squirrels could leap from one top to the next, and pretty soon we're living in the bottom of a well. Psychologically you feel uneasy. Feel in shadow. Something is threatening you. You're trapped inside something that is beyond the human scale, and none of the things we need, like light and air and the sun on our skins is any longer present.

Something inside me has filled up to the brim, and soon the walls will burst.

The cold grips us like handcuffs and the heat is the liberating key.

I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.

Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. I wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way.

Sotto un governo che imprigiona ingiustamente non importa chi, il vero posto dove può vivere un uomo giusto è la prigione.

Nuestras casas son una propiedad tan aparatosa que a menudo estamos más encerrados que alojados en ellas.

Existía un secreto en Bly… quizá un familiar inmencionable recluido en un insospechado confinamiento?

Se sou inumano é porque meu mundo transbordou de suas fronteiras humanas, porque ser humano parece uma coisa pobre, triste, miserável, limitada pelos sentidos, restringida pelas moralidades e pelos códigos, definida pelos lugares-comuns e 'ismos'. (Trópico de Câncer)