Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often…

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

— Henry David Thoreau

“We are all poor in respect to a thousand savage comforts, though surrounded by luxuries...for our houses are such unwieldy property that we are…

— Henry David Thoreau

“our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them; and the bad neighborhood to be avoided is…

— Henry David Thoreau

His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding his time…

— Christer Kihlman

While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.

— Henry David Thoreau

A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The servants of a queen, even a queen under arrest, were not usually supposed to be physically higher than she was. Did the women…

— Nicola Clark

“at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison — by the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.

— Woody Harrelson

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of…

— Eckhart Tolle

She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.

— Sena Jeter Naslund

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson