Quotes About Confinement

If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.

I felt caged by my childhood.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

You like it in jail?' 'It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

You like it in jail? It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

You like it in jail? It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

his mind was an enraged animal, bouncing off the bars of a magically imposed cage, and like an animal, he reacted blindly, striking against the barrier again and again, determined either to be free or to die. Hot

Fear holds us and binds us and keeps us from growing, Nicholas." Pug's voice took on an insistent quality. "It kills a small piece of us each day. It holds us to what we know and keeps us from what's possible, and it is our worst enemy. Fear doesn't announce itself; it's disguised, and it's subtle. It's choosing the safe course; most of us feel we have 'rational' reasons to avoid taking risks.

I am the architect of my own imprisonment.

Freedom for me is a pain in the Buridan's ass.

confinement is always waiting to envelope you.) Some pranksters put up a poster announcing another remedy, that all men be excluded from campus after dark. It was an equally logical solution, but men were shocked at being asked to disappear, to lose their freedom to move and participate, all because of the violence of one man. It is easy to name the disappearances of the Dirty War as crimes

Sometimes birds return to their cages when the door is open, sometimes people free to make their own choices choose to abandon that power.

The veil was a kind of wall of privacy, the marker of a woman for one man, a portable architecture of confinement.

inside this prison he lived in freedom

Your worst dungeon might be the room with the most windows.

This girl's a prisoner of her time and her age, the same as anyone else, which means that all of this is perfectly serious to her.

It surprised Anna and it upset Anna how small her life was each time she tried to tell it, to shape it in order to escape it, how it always came out too quickly as a few dispiriting sentences so easily dismissed.

Perhaps if Tasmania had been a normal place where you had a proper job, spent hours in traffic in order to spend more hours in a normal crush of anxieties waiting to return to a normal confinement, and where no-one ever dreamt what it was like to be a seahorse, abnormal things like becoming a fish wouldn't happen to you.

threatening apes. What was this room? How could he get out? The green blindfold was now wrapping around his throat, choking him. His heart was pounding. He

that jail existed for the opposite reason from why your home existed

You could call it the one big box, outside which there isn't another box.

I was sayin' let me out of here before I was even born.

Worse fates than being forced into a place where your choice of acts is limited to those where your soul burns brightest.