We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and… — William Golding Copy Share Image
To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! — Jules Verne 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
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o 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
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
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
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
“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
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
It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The… — Lois McMaster Bujold 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
From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical… — Paige Bradley Copy Share Image
“Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. "Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How… — Mercedes Lackey 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
“For animals, the confinement of the body is the confinement of the whole being, but a person can choose freedom even when… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind… — Martha Beck 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
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
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
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
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
The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain… — Tippi Hedren 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
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
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential… — Aldous Huxley 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
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
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
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
You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
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
