Quotes About Confinement

Lin reflected how much power mere money had. Lying in the purse it was just coins. Let loose from confinement, it was blankets against the cold, and candied chestnuts. It was an old lady clad in a new dress with hibiscus flowers on it.

It already felt a lifetime ago, prison years being like dog years.

Passengers were crowded together, forced to live and sleep and eat in intolerably cramped conditions. There was almost no privacy, no water for washing, no break in the tedium as the ship rolled and pitched, hour after hour, day after day, even in fine weather.

I'm not allowed to walk topside, nor can I walk below deck. What could possibly be left for me to do? Oh, I know. Die from boredom! (Serenity)

I am merely biding my time. (Stryder) For what? (Rowena) For the moment when I am out of this cell and am able to wreak havoc on the one who put me here. I'm going to pull out his innards through his nostrils and dance around his entrails. (Stryder)

Fear, Leni learned, was not the small dark closet she'd always imagined; walls pressed in close, a ceiling you bumped your head on, a floor cold to the touch. No. Fear was a mansion, one room after another, connected by endless hallways.

Estás en medio de la gente, callada, encogida, con aire de querer escapar a cada instante.

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can't fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly.

The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can't fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly. Only a monster would lock a bird in here and call himself an animal lover.

There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.

The ultimate expression of law is not order - it's prison.

I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.

Abed, the walls pressed close and the ceiling hung heavy above him; abed, the room was his cell and Winterfell his prison. Yet outside his windows, the wide world still called. - Bran

The Wall was like that. Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forgot about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

Un sim? al libert??ii absolute. Un sentiment asem?n?tor po?i avea doar în mormânt ?i la WC. Interesant e c? ambele au aproximativ acelea?i dimensiuni.

All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then, in that hot and dismal corridor. I heard a rushing sound in my head and felt a pressure in my breast, like floodwaters rising behind a flimsy dike. Before I knew I did it, the soup bowl was rising in my hand as if elevated by some supernatural force. Then, its yellow-gray contents were running down the nurse's pudgy face.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth, and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Security is a kind of death.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.