Quotes About Confinement

CUT TO: ERNIE, another prisoner, sitting on john, pants down.

I should be rather like the wild hawk, who, barred the free exercise of his soar through heaven, will dash himself to pieces against the bars of his cage.

Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.

Now I am too beautiful to be set free.

Prison is a frame of thought, we're all our own prisons, were each our own wardens and we do our own time. See prison in your mind, can't you see I'm free?

Prison is a frame of thought, we're all our own prisons, were each our own wardens and we do our own time. See prison is in your mind, can't you see I'm free?

The old woman dressing a small child for slaughter In a convent's school uniform. The ceiling pale as the flowers. The red parrot screaming in the parrot house.

Even now, as Special Guest Star, even here, in your own neighborhood. Two words that define you, flatten you, trap you and keep you here. Who you are. All you are. Your most salient feature, overshadowing any other feature about you, making irrelevant any other characteristic. Both necessary and sufficient for a complete definition of your identity:

IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before.

I don't like to look out of the windows even--there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?

I don't like to look out of the windows even—there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper, as I did?

Chain link all around with razor wire at the top, the fence was maybe nine feet high. I didn't see any signs right away, but as I trudged along its length I eventually encountered an admonition to KEEP OUT. PROPERTY MONITORED AND MAINTAINED BY THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES. TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT. It might as well have said, WELCOME, RAYLENE. LET YOURSELF INSIDE, BUT KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN, M'KAY?

One is forced to examine one's life when trapped in the wall by a Murphy bed.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in

Hver gang hun føler seg trengt opp i et hjørne, bryter hun ut i: «Nei, for du er vel mer vant til å håndtere lik, du.» Eller: «Du tåler det bare ikke når folk gjør noe så kjedelig som å puste eller snakke, du.» Eller: «Kan du ikke bare kverke meg, da?» Men bortsett fra det er alt fint.

everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

The only good cage is an empty cage.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

Shut away, drugged up, and silenced," Faust said. "I'm sure that's exactly what you'd prefer, because you don't want me, or anyone else, revealing the truth.