Confinement Quotes

67 quotes by 63 authors

In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create… — H P Lovecraft
Itâ€™s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all… — Lois McMaster Bujold
For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my… — Aron Ralston
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every… — Aldous Huxley
Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement… — Gayle Forman
The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement. — Joyce Meyer
The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement. — Pablo Neruda
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet… — Washington Irving
During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to… — Tahir Shah
Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered… — Gary Chapman
I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a â€œrealization of solitudeâ€ that goes like this: Iâ€™m lonely.… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude â€“ that sounds too peaceful. More like… — Suzanne Collins
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 in solitary confinement. — William Golding
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one. — Frederica Mathewes-Green
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. — Noam Chomsky
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! — Jules Verne
I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts of time in what you… — Mary Roach
It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they… — Thomas Mellon
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life! — Tennessee Williams

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