Quotes About Confinement

Todos somos esclavos, ama —replicó Vora—. Las mujeres. Los hombres, a su manera. No existe la libertad, solo diferentes tipos de esclavitud. Incluso un ashaki ve constreñidos sus actos por las restricciones que imponen la tradición y la política. Y el emperador es aún menos libre que ellos.

The world's a nightmare, my love. I'd like to get off, but they tell me we can't, we're on an express train.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

They say that the best dog will turn cross if he be kept chained all the time, and it was the same with the man; he had not a thing to do all day but lie and curse his fate, and the time came when he wanted to curse everything.

In a cell like mine you very quickly become aware of your body. You can grow to hate your body. And your body is all you have: this was the curious thought that kept floating up through my rage.

Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence.

Que lo pongan a uno en libertad no quiere decir que lo liberen de la condena. Del presidio se sale; de la condena, no.

Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. That

La scarcerazione non è liberazione. Si esce dal bagno penale ma non dalla condanna.

Que lo pongan a uno en libertad no quiere decir que lo liberen. Del presidio se sale; de la condena, no.

Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls, a ceiling of stone, a pavement of tiles, a camp bed, a grated air-hole, a double iron door, and were called dungeons ; but the dungeon has been thought too horrible; now it is composed ofan iron door, a grated air-hole, a camp bed, a pavement of tiles, a ceiling of stone, four stone walls, and it is called punishment cell.

La excarcelación no es la libertad. Se acaba el presidio, pero no la condena. Esto

La liberazione non è la libertà; si esce dal carcere, ma non dalla condanna.

La galera fa il galeotto.

The truth of my circumstance climbs into the bed with me and takes up too much room.

He was—as always—trapped by the flypaper of good manners.

The singing bird lives in a cage. The owl roams free

It was cruel. Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it's tethered by the leg, and freedom is only an illusion.

The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!

Samuel! Are you alright?" A vision of Samuel being brained by the falling bars rose up before Simon's eyes. Samuel's voice rose to a scream. "GO AWAY!" Simon looked sideways at Jace. "I think he means it." Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." (Jace Wayland)

I am saying the choices we make in captivity are not always the choices we make in freedom. And thus we question them. We cannot help it.

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.