Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo 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 premise of Kiss has always been to not live within the confinements and boundaries other people set for themselves. We set… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The secret to responsible trust is acceptance. Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange 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
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself. — Ingrid Newkirk 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
“...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains.” — Stuart Turton Copy Share Image
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals… — Virginia McKenna Copy Share Image
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by… — Jacques Yves Cousteau 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
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe,… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image