Quotes About Confinement

My grandma let the dog out of the coal shed. She said my mother was cruel to lock it up. The dog was sick on the kitchen floor. My grandma locked it up again.

Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.

I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.

They put me in solitary confinement, and although I went on to do 8,755 days of solitary in total, the first two were the hardest. I almost went mad, beating my head against the wall.

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary confinement for the first time.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.

She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.

Let me go!" I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. "I can't, " he says.

You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance—to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse? As a free form of expression, I will never understand it. I can only say that some of my saddest sounds have been heard in such places. A song inside a cage is never a song. It is a plea.

You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance—to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse?

That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret.

You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance—to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse? As a free form of expression, I will never understand it.

Men adapt to captivity, some better than others.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Matt was strapped to a bed in a room full of alarming machinery.

You're only free up to the point where you ignore the truth.

Er zijn ergere gevangenissen dan woorden.

Há prisões piores que as palavras.

You mean I can't chain him to the bumper of my truck and drag him through the city?