Quotes About Confinement

my life feels so small it itches, like a too-tight wool sweater

En toch. 'Opgroeien in deze hemel op aarde was als leven in een plastic zak,' schreef hij. 'Er heerste een verstikkend gevoel van opsluiting, alsof je voortdurend je eigen lucht inademde. Door te veel orde en te weinig risico's werd het leven benauwd en triviaal – en dat terwijl dit een wereld van vrijheid en ongekende kansen heette te zijn.

I was a timid rebel, held in a straitjacket of indecision. Each time I tried to take a step, I met mental and physical restraints.

This is illegal. If you don't let me out, you'll be arrested. I swear you will. You'll go to prison and be forced to have intimate relations with a man named Butch. Let. Me. Out.

And if she'd been able to choose her options a few hours ago, being trapped in a dead vampire's private study with an angry Fae would not have been one of them.

It's like a prison. Okay, it is a prison. There's the problem right there.

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

He wrapped me up like a package. I couldn't move an inch. "I thought you were some sort of maniac!" I growled. "I am." "What are you doing here?" "Looking for Jim in your bed." "He isn't here." "I see that.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

I could not see other human beings at present.

That too was part of a machine from which she had not, for all her 'feelings' and her 'principles', the spirit or the courage really to escape.

You know as well as I do that one can be imprisoned in one's mind.

Moreover, and of course, she loved him; but in Sefton's stern code her love had always been chained up, and howled fruitlessly, as indeed it did now.

Un tizietto in tuta mi grida dal pianerottolo in alto che non dovrei stare qui. E' la storia della mia vita. Sempre in un posto dove non dovrei stare.

Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

But now, Earthmen are all so coddled, so enwombed in their imprisoning caves of steel, that they are caught forever.

Subjective matter of opinion, Gaal. If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.

Fakat art?k dünyan?n ne olduÄŸunu biliyordu: ÖzgürlüÄŸün s?n?rs?zl???yla kuÅŸat?lm?? bir hapishane..

Se você tivesse nascido numa cela e crescido num corredor, trabalhando num cubículo, com férias numa varanda repleta de gente, ao sair para o ar livre, sem nada além do céu sobre si, talvez lhe desse um ataque de nervos.

If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.