Quotes About Confinement

Yet I was wound up. I tick. I exist. I am poised eighteen inches over the black rivets you are reading, I am in your place, I am shut in a bone box and trying to fasten myself on the white paper. The rivets join us together and yet for all the passion we share nothing but our sense of division.

prison of Peter and Paul

Ilse Aichinger, "The Bound Man

But I was like a bird caught in a snare. Only, the wires of this snare were made of curiosity and a disobedient heart.

I'm grateful that we are safe. But it occurs to me that being safe is not very different from being imprisoned.

METAPHOR: A tightly fitting suit of metal, generally tin, which entirely encloses the wearer, both impeding free movement and preventing emotional expression and/or social contact.

In fact, the idea of being locked in a small room seemed kind of comforting. Almost womblike in a strange way.

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

Did you enjoy prison?' Mitchell asked. When they started asking really stupid questions was when you knew you'd truly pissed them off. 'Do you want to go back there?' 'To be honest, if it was between prison and connecting in Terminal Five at Heathrow, I'd choose T5. Just. So no.

You're trapped both ways. You do as you are told and you do things that you think will make you big, but all the time you're shrinking.

This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.

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

Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

To arrive is to be in prison.

Books are boring to read. You can't move around in them as you wish. You are asked to follow. The trail is traced, one way.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

When politicians like Sen. Joseph Lieberman target video game violence, perhaps it is to distract attention from the material conditions that give rise to a culture of domestic violence, the economic policies that make it harder for most of us to own our own homes, and the development practices which pave over the old grasslands and forests. Video games did not make backyard play spaces disappear; rather, they offer children some way to respond to domestic confinement.

I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!

My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons…

Soon after the doctor, Dolly had arrived. She knew that there was to be a consultation that day, and though she was only just up after her confinement (she had another baby, a little girl, born at the end of the winter), though she had trouble and anxiety enough of her own, she had left her tiny baby and a sick child, to come and hear Kitty's fate, which was to be decided that day.