Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I spent 11 years in isolation units, solitary confinement... in the hardest places for women. — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains.” — Stuart Turton Copy Share Image
Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke. — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts of time… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“The [human] animal cannot cope with [dense confinement]; indeed, it is programmed to resist it. It must resist it, in the interest… — John Livingston, from "Rogue Primate: An Investigation Into Human Domestication Copy Share Image
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. — Florence King Copy Share Image
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. — W. L. George Copy Share Image
I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“We are relational creatures. All humans live in community and most people seek social interaction. In western culture, isolation is seen as… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
“Confinement is not a part of your destiny. Your life purpose is to take the totality of your negative experiences, roll them… — B.L. Brown Copy Share Image
How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“I am often reminded how a small fire underneath a vast sky can bind people together like nothing else. For all that… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“He remembered learning in one of his social studies classes that in the Old West, when Native Americans were thrown into jail,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
We fight for territory. We see it in our Congress, we see it in our political systems, we see it in our… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“[Solitary confinement] is terrible. That is terrible. You're in a grave. You can't do anything. Everything's brought to you and you're in… — Megan Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Sister, why do you do that?" "Do what?" "Cage the animals at night?" "Well..." She looked up and out through the barred… — Jennings Michael Burch Copy Share Image
“Don’t let your society and environment dictate what you do with your time” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so… — Thomas Mellon Copy Share Image
Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
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