Quotes about Confinement
The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell and paints the inside walls sky-blue and blocks up the door and says he's in heaven.
- DH Lawrence
And looking ahead, the prospect of her life made her feel as if she were buried alive.
- DH Lawrence
Each narrow cell in which we dwell Is a foul and dark latrine, And the fetid breath of living Death Chokes up each grated screen, And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.
- Oscar Wilde
Our brother Darl in a cage in Jackson where, his grimed hands lying light in the quiet interstices, looking out he foams.
- William Faulkner
Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.
- William Golding
A man escaped from his cell is not free who still drags his chain.)
- Leonard Ravenhill
You can transform your nation into a prison because you are committed to an ideology.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
In many ways, airplane travel mimics the asceticism of the early desert monks: a limited and uncomfortable physical space in which to sit, limited availability of water, food that is less than appetizing, small chance of getting much sleep.
- Kathleen Norris
Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.
- Joseph Heller
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
- GK Chesterton
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
- Samuel Johnson
How many people are there left who are neither locked up nor standing guard at the gate?
- JM Coetzee