All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I spent 11 years in isolation units, solitary confinement... in the hardest places for women. — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke. — Jenny Zhang 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
“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
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
“Break away from the box confining you. Positive dreamers do not follow the status quo. They keep raising the standard of the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Never say "I don't care"! We are all looking up to you. Dare to break the fence that confines you! Make it… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go… — Tiffanie DeBartolo 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
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
Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I didn't mind the 23 hours a day solitary confinement for the majority of the time, because after the first few years… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But… — Samir Geagea Copy Share Image
What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself.… — Charles Manson 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 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
Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of… — Wilbert Rideau Copy Share Image
Some people may argue that if the animals are treated humanely prior to being slaughtered, this justifies their confinement and slaughter. Is… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the… — Charles Lamb 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
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply. — Will Self Copy Share Image
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to… — Wally Wood Copy Share Image
When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Every year, about 10 billion farm animals go through America's horrific factory farm system: cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, lamb. There, they are… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image