Quotes About Confinement

The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.

Like a fruit hidden among its leaves, which has grown and ripened unobserved by man, until it falls of its own accord, there came upon us one night the kitchen-maid's confinement.

Horror y duda perturban sus confusos pensamientos y desde el fondo agitan el Infierno que su seno contiene, porque dentro de sí lleva el Infierno y a su entorno, y del Infierno no puede alejarse un solo paso, igualmente como tampoco puede de sí mismo huir aunque de lugar cambie.

Having escaped restraint, they were, like some people we know of, afraid of their freedom, did not know what to do with it, and seemed glad to get back into the old familiar bondage.

sequestered in a smelly stateroom on a rusting ship filled with kidney-stabbing miscreants

She'd been caged for far too long.

Shit-buckets are everywhere, but if you are afraid of being chained to them, then you are already chained to them.

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

When a man is finally boxed and he has no choice, he begins to decorate his box. So Hazel, condemned to the presidency, since he could not escape it, began to ornament it. A man can climb high on the steps of responsibility.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and the corner was me.

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.

And he kept himself captive of his imaginations.

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said.

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

It's like a haunted house we can't leave, ' Neil said.A haunted house we're afraid to leave, Tony thought.

Fear is the prison of the heart.

The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

I saw her thus, solid, flushed, opulent and captive, returning home quite naturally with myself, as a woman who was my own property, and, protected by its walls, disappearing into our house. Unfortunately, she seemed to feel herself a prisoner there, and to share the opinion of that Mme. de La Rochefoucauld who, when somebody asked her whether she was not glad to live in so beautiful a home as Liancourt, replied: "There is no such thing as a beautiful prison