Quotes About Confinement

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

How can I escape a cage build by man?

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak, Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that tiesMy hair...now could I but unloose my soul!We are sepulchred alive in this close world, And want more room.

Life is a prison in which we find ourselves.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

Fear is the chain that wraps around a free man's leg.

A life lived without borders is a life lived in captivity

To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.

The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds.

Toen zag hij een deur openstaan naar de enige plaats waar men zich altijd aan de wereld onttrekken kan. Niemand weet wie zich bevindt op een afgesloten wc.

More and more I knew my budding world was ruined if he were free in it. As a specimen Mr. Wallace might be my pride. Glory to him in a jar. But free! Better to release the sweet moving tiger or the delicate snake, the monumental elephant. I was just a castaway to be devoured.

To those who don't understand why Fenton or Feinstein didn't simply put Holmes into a hospital whether he wanted to go or not: it just doesn't work that way. Protection from unjustified confinement is a very important civil right in the United States.

All they got locked up in this hole is my body. That's all they got, my body, not me. I'm everywhere, see? Everywhere you look, junior, everywhere you go.

it smelled like jail...sore knees and loose assholes.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.