Quotes About Confinement

We all of us somehow caught. We born this way or that way and we don't know why. But we caught any how. I was born Berenice. You Born Franky. John Henry born John Henry. And maybe we wants to widen and bust free. But no matter what we do we still caught. Me is me and you is you and he is he. We each one of us somehow caught all by ourself. I'm caught worse than you is. Because I'm Black, because I'm colored.

To me it is the irony of fate," she said. "The way they come here. Those moths could fly anywhere. Yet they keep hanging around the windows of this house.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see

I think I have a vague idea what you were driving at, she said. We all of us somehow caught. We born this way and we don't know why. But we caught anyhow. I born Berenice. You born Frankie. John Henry born John Henry. And maybe we wants to widen and bust free. But no matter what we do we still caught. Me is me and you is you and he is he. We each one of us somehow caught all by ourself. Is that what you was trying to say?

You can transform your nation into a prison because you are committed to an ideology.

Durmadan kendi kabuÄŸumuzun d???na ç?kma deneyi yap?yor, ama bu deneyde baÅŸar?s?z oluyoruz, hep tepetaklak yuvarlan?yoruz, çünkü kendi kabuÄŸumuzun d???na ölüm d???nda ç?kamayaca??m?z? anlamak istemiyoruz.

It seemed a very short distance to the outside. This was only a building, there were only five doors between Lecter and the outside. He had the absurd feeling that Lecter had walked out with him. He stopped outside the entrance and looked around him, assuring himself that he was alone.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

Did we not, at the very moment of birth, stumble into agonizing captivity? A prison, a prison with bars and chains everywhere!

Es que no puede haber una forma de manifestarlo sin parecer "beodo o trastornado"? La civilización es una estupidez. ¿Para qué se nos ha dado un cuerpo, si hemos de mantenerlo encerrado en un estuche como si fuera algún valioso Stradivarius?

She had to admit that she sometimes saw in them a reflection of herself, cooped up with nothing but the same faces to look at day after day. But today, she'd gone on a carriage ride and opened the door to Daphne. Perhaps her own cage door might be rattling open. Just a little bit?

Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery; and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom.

Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.

We all move uneasily within our restraints.

Where is she? Not in the box. You cannot rest in a box.

You leave that lid screwed on tight, we're gonna die sooner'r later. Best just to set us loose while we still know how to fly.

Chance imagined himself no stranger to the machinations by which people went about establishing the architecture of their own imprisonment, the citadels from whose basement windows one might on occasion hear their cries. Like Houdini, we construct the machinery of our entrapment from which we must finally escape or die.

When you're in a coffin it's hard to think out of the box. Jack Taylor

Even the wide sea and the open sky can be claustrophobic if you never get away from them.

Without compunction, pity or shame, they've built towering walls around me. Desperate, I sit and think one thing: alone here this fate confounds me. For there were many things I'd hoped to do out there. With all the construction, how was I not aware? Yet the crack and clang of hammers I never once heard. Imperceptibly they've confined me from the outside world. ("Walls")

Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch,

P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

Las buenas intenciones de la gente pueden acabar encerrándonos en espacios tan agobiantes como ataúdes.

I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.