The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is…

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

— Don DeLillo

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is…

— Gary Chapman

The premise of Kiss has always been to not live within the confinements and boundaries other people set for themselves. We set our own…

— Paul Stanley

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“The [human] animal cannot cope with [dense confinement]; indeed, it is programmed to resist it. It must resist it, in the interest of survival.”

— John Livingston, from "Rogue Primate: An Investigation Into Human Domestication

People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

— Richard Paul Evans

The secret to responsible trust is acceptance. Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and…

— Charles R. Swindoll

During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness…

— Thomas Berry

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue…

— Julian Assange

Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my…

— Gayle Forman

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

— Florence King

Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.

— Ingrid Newkirk

In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains.”

— Stuart Turton