Quotes About Confinement

Even the garden of Eden was just a big fancy cage," Adam says. "You'll be a slave the rest of your life unless you bite the apple.

Anche il giardino dell'Eden non era nient'altro che una grande gabbia di lusso dice Adam. Resterai uno schiavo per il resto della tua vita, a meno che tu non morda la mela.

Las mismas leyes que nos mantienen a salvo nos condenan al aburrimiento. Sin acceso al caos verdadero, nunca lograremos la paz verdadera.

Even the garden of Eden was just a big fancy cage...You'll be a slave the rest of your life unless you bite the apple.

But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that

I'm happy to scrap with you, Macey darling, but we might do a little too much damage in this small space.

To forbid the thought of escape, even that slightest butterfly thought of escape, was to murder one's humanity.

Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with the trees up close but from the outside, from the empty meadow, you see its true limits. Being free had nothing to do with chains or how much space you had. On the plantation, she was not free, but she moved unrestricted on its acres, tasting the air and tracing the summer stars. The place was big in its smallness. Here, she was free of her master but slunk around a warren so tiny she couldn't stand.

a small freedom was the worst punishment of all, presenting the bounty of true freedom into painful relief.

Who knew the havoc and ruin they'd perpetrate if allowed to run free among decent people. Best to keep them all in here, on this island, bought for twenty-seven bucks from the Indians, the story went. Twenty-seven bucks went a lot further in those days.

That they ride in a box on a rope in a pit. That they are in the void.

That the door fell shut, that the latch fell into place, did I know it with a nameless fear. At that second the eight days turned into 192 hours, empty caged hours.

Anything outside the barbed wire became remote - out of reach and, in a way, unreal. The events and the people outside, all the normal life there, had a ghostly aspect for the prisoner. The outside life, that is, as much as he could see of it, appeared to him almost as it might have to a dead man who looked at it from another world.

that was tied to his wrists. His toes hovered only

What dissolution of the soul you demanded in order to get through one day, what lies, bowings, scrapings, fluency and servility! How you chained me to one spot, one hour, one chair, and sat yourselves down opposite! How you snatched from me the white spaces that lie between hour and hour and rolled them into dirty pellets and tossed them into the waste-paper basket with your greasy paws. Yet those were my life.

For how would you like to be shut up for a whole month at a time, and possibly more in stormy weather, upon a rock the size of a tennis lawn?

Married against their will, kept in one room, and to one occupation, how could a dramatist give a full or interesting or truthful account of them? Love was the only possible interpreter. The poet was forced to be passionate or bitter, unless indeed he chose to 'hate women', which meant more often than not that he was unattractive to them.

E pensai a quanto fosse sgradevole esserne chiusi fuori; e pensai a come, forse, debba essere peggio rimanere chiusi dentro.

Mr. Denham cursed himself very sharply for having exchanged the freedom of the street for this sophisticated drawing-room

Los ojos de los demás, nuestras prisiones; sus pensamientos, nuestras jaulas.

pensé en lo desagradable que era que le dejaran a uno fuera; y pensé que quizás era peor que le encerraran a uno dentro;

We are most artistically caged.

I am here through an error—not in this prison, specifically—but in this whole terrible, striped world;

With a heavy heart I left the house and walked through the spotted blaze of the sun to my car. Two other cars were parked on both sides of it, and I had some trouble squeezing out.