Quotes About Confinement

There is the darkness of a moonless night out of doors, and there is the darkness of a house with its shutters closed and the lamps quenched. There is the darkness of sleep, relieved by the bright images of dreams. But no darkness is as complete, as blanketing, as terrifying as the utter darkness of underground.

The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time.

More than iron doors, more than walls, it is the tiny peephole that really makes the prisoner feel locked in

I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.

Corpus bones, I thought. To be wedded to this perfumed prig with his mouth in a knot and a frown always on his face!

The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her.

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

This is illegal. If you don't let me out, you'll be arrested. I swear you will. You'll go to prison and be forced to have intimate relations with a man named Butch. Let. Me. Out.

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.

Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release

I suffer from CLAUSTROPHOBIA, a fear of closed spaces.For example, I'm petrified that the WINE store will be closed before I have time to get there!!!

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.