Explore 'Confinement'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

Linda Colley

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

Lord Byron

We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.

William Butler Yeats

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.

Henrik Ibsen

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

Jane Austen

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

Jean Cocteau

Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

Aldous Huxley

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free – but only the truth can make a man free.

Alan Keyes

I don’t want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way – too tight!

Dalai Lama

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

Khalil Gibran

Her mind is a bird that’s trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

Lauren DeStefano

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

John Taylor Gatto

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.

Arthur Miller

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Samuel Johnson

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

Kedar Joshi

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

Jo Brand

A jail is just like a nutshell with a worm in it, the worm will always get out.

John Dillinger

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Stendhal

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

Stephen King

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

Mahatma Gandhi

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