Quotes About Confinement

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Bengt didn't budge. "Talk to me, damn it." "Let go!" "And where are you planning to go, Alex?" "Away!" "You can't get away. You're lugging your own prison around with you and patching up any holes from inside. Brilliant tactics, really! How does it feel?" "Safe!

You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.

The jailer is another kind of captive—is the jailer envious of his prisoner's dreams?

Korkudan bile olsa, insan kendinden kaçam?yor, ne o yöne ne bu yöne ç?k?? yok.

How long will I be in here?" I asked. "Varies," said the guard as he closed the door and locked me in. "Usually until Mrs. Cobrawick thinks you learned your lesson. I hate this job. Try not to lose your mind, girl." Those were the last words spoken to me for a very long time. The guard had given me good advice, which turned out to be nearly impossible to follow.

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

La liberté, c'est le minotaure en dehors des murs.

The only prison we can never escape is our brain, and yet our brain is what sets us free.

The longer he spent in the apartment the more terrifying the outside world became. He

A special case of thread confinement applies to volatile variables. It is safe to perform read-modify-write operations on shared volatile variables as long as you ensure that the volatile variable is only written from a single thread. In this case, you are confining the modification to a single thread to prevent race conditions, and the visibility guarantees for volatile variables ensure that other threads see the most up-to-date value. Because

Because of its fragility, ad-hoc thread confinement should be used sparingly; if possible, use one of the stronger forms of thread confinment (stack confinement or ThreadLocal) instead. 3.3.2.

Taking the body from under the boards, he sat it on a dining-chair, but left the carrier bag over its head as he did not want to look at the face.

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls -- even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls -- without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

week days pent up in lath and

the ground. Even his mouth was tied so that he couldn't

Many fine books have been written in prison.

And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

Bond found this irksome. He disliked being cosseted. It gave him claustrophobia.

The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.

Certain artists in print or paint flourish, like babies-to-be, in confined spaces.