Quotes About Confinement
where Ariana was being kept, nor under
~ Danielle Steel
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My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.
~ Dave Eggers
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His jumpsuit was white, and on the back were the letters D and R printed in black. They stood for "death row". Mars had equated it to a snake's rattle, warning folks to stay the hell away.
~ David Baldacci
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Vega, death is only fear. Without fear, there is no death. Without death, there are no bars. Without bars, there is only freedom.
~ David Baldacci
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He cranks the condo's AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic darkness where you're dreading whatever you think of.
~ David Foster Wallace
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You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage.
~ David Foster Wallace
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the being struck dumb. It's like some combination of invisibility and being buried alive, in terms of the feeling. It's like being strangled somewhere deeper inside you than your neck.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
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I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space.
~ William Shakespeare
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Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.
~ William Shakespeare
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Make not your thoughts your prisons.
~ William Shakespeare
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To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee. LADY GREY: To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison.
~ William Shakespeare
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It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil trick played upon the sick brain by the inhabiting psyche, comes to resemble the diabolical discomfort of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. And because no breeze stirs this caldron, because there is no escape from this smothering confinement, it is entirely natural that the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion.
~ William Styron
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Las aves domésticas se distinguen de las de corral en que las guardamos en jaulas exclusivamente para satisfacer el placer estético. El nuestro, claro. Del placer que sienten las aves condenadas a ver a sus dueños, no sé nada.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
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Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
~ Xenophon
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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!
~ Yann Martel
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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful. I
~ Yann Martel
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Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something.
~ Yann Martel
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Sneaking in and out of places was a skill that Han had mastered at a young age. All his life, people had been trying to keep him inside places he didn't want to be, or out of places he needed to get into.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
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Cerra as janelas do quarto — não ver, não ouvir, não sentir. Na cama silenciosa, flutuante na escuridão, aconchega-se como no ventre perdido e esquece. Tudo é vago, leve e mudo.
~ Clarice Lispector
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We shall be inhuman - as humankind's greatest conquest. To be is to be beyond the human. To be a human being doesn't do it, to be human has been a constraint. The unknown awaits us, but I sense that that unknown is a totalization and will be the true humanization we long for. Am I speaking of death? no, of life.
~ Clarice Lispector
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Be to, kaipgi b?si susaistyta su vyru, jeigu neleisi jam tav?s ?kalinti? Kaip uždrausi jam sum?ryti savo keturias sienas jos k?nui ir jos sielai? Ar ?manoma k? nors tur?ti neleidžiant tur?ti tav?s?
~ Clarice Lispector
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Mis previsiones me cerraban el mundo.
~ Clarice Lispector
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Capta essa outra coisa de que na verdade falo porque eu mesma não posso.
~ Clarice Lispector
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