Quotes About Confinement

When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves.

The beast caged. Rather limiting for Mr Hyde.

With each passing year, the body turns more prison than shelter.

Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Hate cages all the good things about you.

I felt myself like a foolish bird, a bird born in a cage without power to attain freedom... I walked along the fields, by the neat iron railing with which they were enclosed. All about me was visible the care of man. Nature herself seemed under the power of the formal influence, and flourished with rigidity and decorum. Nothing was left wild. The trees were lopped into proper shape, cut down here where their presence seemed inelegant and planted there to complete the symmetry of a group.

Only the fact of my broken limbs prevents me from leaping at your throat.

As the two wardens looked on, the jailer shackled the old woman to an iron band with

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

Then I wanted to beg him to forgive me. But this would have been too great a confession; any yielding at that moment would have locked me forever in that room with him. And in a way this was exactly what I wanted.

All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which was now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness

Se você ficar se protegendo o tempo todo", acrescentou, mudando o tom de voz, "vai acabar preso dentro do seu próprio corpo sujo, pra sempre, pra todo o sempre — como eu.

You play it safe long enough," he said, in a different tone, "and you'll end up trapped in your own dirty body, forever and forever and forever—like me.

I was in a box for I could see that, no matter how I turned, the hour of confession was upon me and could scarcely be averted; unless of course, I leaped out of the cab, which would be the most terrible confession of all.

To begin with, the room was not large enough for two. It looked out on a small courtyard. 'Looked out' means only that the room had two windows, against which the courtyard malevolently pressed, encroaching day by day, as though it had confused itself with a jungle.

You do, sometimes, remind of the kind of man who is tempted to put himself in prison in order to avoid being hit by a car.

We take our shape within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth.

Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

You do, sometimes, remind me of the kind of man who is tempted to put himself in prison in order to avoid being hit by a car.

Now Mr. Green was so completely a star of a confined orbit, that his ideas seldom described a tangent to their ordinary revolutions.

I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.

A typical day in the Senate requires several trips to the Senate floor and back, although the journey is usually underground so that on some days, once I arrive at work, I never see the sun.