Quotes About Confinement

living in the palace of Versailles must have felt like being imprisoned in a constantly turning kaleidoscope.

We live as in a walled garden now, walled by ourselves. We have been building this wall for some time, but now it's complete. That is new. And yet our surroundings remain as radiantly mysterious as ever.

Once I'm on my feet I realize escape might not be so easy.

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

This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me.

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude — that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

That was the thing about being a captive bird...You learned to adapt, and before you knew it your captivity seemed normal. If you were free once again, you would become confused and miss the security of your captivity.

They had all come here to have their babies in secret and to give up their flesh and blood for adoption. In Alice's mind, the rooms and the hallway echoed with their silent tears; the carpets absorbed their sorrow and the curtains soaked up their despair

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.

I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.

Do you know why animals die in cages? Their soul dies.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

I have a horror of being in confined spaces.

In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York.

Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.

You only spoke a single line, yet it felt like a life sentence.

Ta? duvarlar de?ildir zindan? zindan yapan, Ya da demir parmakl?klar kafesi yaratan.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so in exorable as one's self!

It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.

But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart.

Qué calabozo es más obscuro que el propio corazón? ¿Qué carcelero es más inexorable que uno mismo?

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

They have elevated him on a pedestal, but...a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.