Quotes about Confinement
What place would that be, a whole world without roads? It was a panicking thought. A world without roads! He would go nowhere in such a place. He would be trapped where he was, he would have lived out his life only where he was born.
- Lydia Millet
Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside.
- Lysa TerKeurst
What numbers us imprisons us.
- Lysa TerKeurst
To live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism, suspicion, and envy, is to be confined in a self made prison-hole.
- James Allen
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
- George Bernard Shaw
There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death…
- Virginia Woolf
She never went out herself, and like a great many other old ladies of the same stamp, she was apt to consider it an act of domestic treason, if anybody else took the liberty of doing what she couldn't.
- Charles Dickens
The bars were wide enough apart to admit of his thrusting his arm through to the elbow; and so he held on negligently, for his greater ease.
- Charles Dickens
The large rooms are too cramped and close. She cannot endure their restraint, and will walk alone in a neighbouring garden.
- Charles Dickens
And of course it shouldnt come as a surprise to find that people in rubber rooms have a worldview at odds with that of the people who put them there.
- Cormac McCarthy
He polished the underside of the messtray with the sleeve of his shift and standing in the center of the room under the lightbulb he studied the face that peered dimly out of the warped steel like some maimed and raging djinn enconjured there.
- Cormac McCarthy
The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos.
- Cormac McCarthy