Quotes About Confinement

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.

Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

How wonderful it is that He Whose greatness could fill a thousand worlds, and very many more, should confine Himself within so small a space, just as He was pleased to dwell within the womb of His most holy Mother!

I've shackled myself with the prison bars of ill health.

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

Barbara began to imagine the pretty girls working in Derry and Toms as beautiful tropical fish in a tank, swimming up and down, up and down, in serene disappointment, with nowhere to go and nothing to see that they hadn't seen a million times before.

The cemetery is where a young hustla go to retire, and prison is where he goes to grow old.

You'd be amazed how little choice you have about loony bins.

So often does it happen that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know there is no key.

So maybe I'll spend some years in prison, but you'll have a big head start on me in hell!

Perhaps life itself occurred as a sort of prison she felt compelled to escape.

I want to tell them, stay in the cage. There are bet­ter things than free­dom. There are worse things than liv­ing a long bored life in some stranger's house and then dy­ing and go­ing to ca­nary heav­en.

The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.

everything wooden swells and shrinks, and the nails in everything wooden, the floors and baseboards and window casings, the nails inch out and rust. Everywhere there are rusted nails to step on or snag your elbow on, and there's only one bathroom for the seven