Quotes about Confinement
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
- George Bernard Shaw
Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
- Corrie Ten Boom
But what we find is that flight becomes captivity: once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing.
- Mark Buchanan
The isolation of this place tightened like a vise around her throat.
- Mary Connealy
Maizy swallowed hard, a motion that almost strangled her in this blasted dress, and she nodded.
- Mary Connealy
And he who has once seen the world's borders will suffer his imprisonment most painfully of all.
- Olga Tokarczuk
and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.
- Genesis 40:3
and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.
- Numbers 15:34
“No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
- Judges 15:13
and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
- 1 Kings 22:27
and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
- 2 Chronicles 18:26
What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
- Job 12:14