Quotes About Confinement

Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.

Les prisons les plus dangereuses sont celles dont on ne voit pas les barreaux.

Invinciblement, quelque chose l'attirait là. Il était prisonnier de sa propre liberté. Il ne pouvait s'arrêter. Il était obnubilé par ce qu'il voyait.

Prison is a haunted house of mirrors. It was impossible for me to come to the truth there.

The rat is in the trap, it is in the trap,And attacking heaven and earth with a mouthful of screeches like torn tin.

my mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

A Kourier has to establish space on the pavement. Predictable law-abiding behavior lulls drivers. They mentally assign you to a little box in the lane, assume you will stay there, can't handle it when you leave that little box.

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Rather than having actual freedom, it seemed that, like animals in a habitat in the zoo, we had only the illusion of freedom. As long as we didn't try to leave the cage, we'd never know we weren't actually free.

This place is so small you have to go outside to change your mind.

I don't want to live in a militarised country behind an iron curtain. It's boring. Been there and seen the movie. I've done that.

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

He didn't want to do this… He had come here to hide.

Come on, Jacques"--Raven made the length of the room again, turned to face him--"don't you find this even a little bit nerve-racking?" He leaned lazily back in his chair, flashing a cocky grin. "Being caged up with a beautiful lunatic, you mean?" "Ha, ha, ha. Do all Carpathian males think they're stand-up comedians?

It's French," she said. "They designed it like a zoo—you know, keep 'em in, but give everyone a good look at 'em...

Alone in my room, I don't feel alone. It's as if I have two shadows instead of one, and this second shadow doesn't conform to my movements. It follows me, it gives the impression it will never leave me, but it does what it wants. I worry that in time I will do what it wants.

Sometimes you can lock the doors and close the blinds, but the monsters are still there inside your house, sleeping and breathing and just waiting to wake up and terrorize you all over again.

Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois. You don't get lost in the woods behind your house. You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall.