Quotes About Being Locked Away

#1. To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.

John Fowles

#3. He didn't fear much, but being locked away in a room was dreadful. He'd rather die than be locked away.

Jeff Carroll

#4. Like nightmares, dreams were insidious things, and didn't like being locked away.

Laini Taylor

#5. If people could hear our thoughts, very few of us would escape from being locked away as mad men.

Jacinto Benavente

#6. Why was she doing this to herself? She was too young to be locked away in this grim castle, weighed down with responsibility that was not hers
to shoulder. She should be at parties, being feted, dancing, and enjoying
herself. Or be surrounded by bairns. My bairns, he thought fiercely.

Monica McCarty

#7. . . .if love wasn't knowing and appreciating all the little things about a person, what was it?
- Lord Trent Hawthorne

Kristi Ann Hunter

#8. My town had grown and changed and my friend along with it. Now returning, as changed to my friend as my town was to me, I distorted his picture, muddied his memory. When I went away I had died, and so became fixed and unchangeable. My return caused only confusion and uneasiness.

John Steinbeck

#9. There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until they are all grown up and ready to read them without being smitten.

Anne Enright

#10. One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Let's just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going.

Steven Blum

#11. I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

Kurt Cobain

#12. Freedom is the kind of essence of being a pirate: You're away from land-locked Europe. You're not part of the society. You're part of the brotherhood of the sea, Your ship is your sense of identity. So when you approach the wheel, that's what you own.

Geoffrey Rush

#13. Mac's heart thumped against her gold, initaled locked. In fact fact, her heart hadn't beated that quickly since she was thirty seconds away from being the top bidder for vintage YSL lace-up heels on eBay. This was a coup.

Zoey Dean

#14. I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

Shaquille O'Neal

#15. She is not the princess locked away in the fortress and you are not some hero who's going to save her.

Heather Anastasiu

#16. Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

James Blunt

#17. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

Jim Butcher