We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I spent 11 years in isolation units, solitary confinement... in the hardest places for women. — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design. — Henry Rollins 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
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
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
The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already… — Franz Grillparzer 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
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
He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too… — Suzanne Collins 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
It's strange when they near your cell. You lose all your strength and you are like this. You lose all your strength… — Sakae Menda Copy Share Image
...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other… — Samuel Johnson 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
I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person… — Calvin Coolidge 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
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
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
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
And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can… — Peter Singer 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
For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
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
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
“[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's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form… — Gerald Stern 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
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
![“When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's public via WikiLeaks, he was put into an inhumane solitary confinement and is now facing charges that carry the possibility of him spending the…” quote by Ray McGovern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba7/ray-mcgovern-27150_aka_when-private-bradley-aka-chelsea-manning_3210329.jpg)
![“During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning…” quote by Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64a/thomas-berry-7391_celestial_during-this-period-of-technological-conf_237540.png)
![“[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 a room all day, except to come out of the showers. So when I would come out, I would entertain myself by singing, doing little mock concerts. And then when I…” quote by Megan Sweeney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/115/megan-sweeney-180683_incarcerated-women_solitary-confinement-is-terrible-that-is_740216.jpg)
