Self Confinement Quotes

#1. But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself ... Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.

Nikolai Berdyaev

#2. Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. I need exercise and solitude. This time of confinement has threatened my sanity!

Larry Niven

#4. The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Karl Kraus

#5. Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

W. L. George

#6. From the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?

J.M. Coetzee

#7. That means, in turn, that this is an experience which shatters time and liberates people from the confinement of time by at once recalling all that has gone before and anticipating all that is to come.

William Stringfellow

#8. After so many months of hoping, long spells of illness and worry and confinement, I hold in my arms my darling child. Everything else fades away. She is perfect.

Kate Morton

#9. 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 back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#10. How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

Jules Verne

#11. Never say "I don't care"! We are all looking up to you. Dare to break the fence that confines you! Make it happen!

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory.

Anton Chekhov

#13. What is death? Either a transition or an end. I am not afraid of coming to an end, this being the same as never having begun, nor of transition, for I shall never be in confinement quite so cramped anywhere else as I am here.

Seneca.

#14. I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..

Bill Ayers

#15. What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?

Peter Ackroyd

#16. Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

Robert Smithson

#17. Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed

Dean Karnazes

#18. The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

Will Self

#19. I don't think there's any loneliness greater than the loneliness to be found in a bad marriage. In solitary confinement, everyone knows you're lonely and feels sorry for you. In a bad marriage loneliness is your darkest secret, one you dare not even share with your spouse.

Daniel Quinn

#20. All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

Nellie Bly

#21. What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself. I make little string dolls. I talk to roaches. I'm in jail for nine counts of murder, and I didn't do it. I'm in solitary confinement, may I add.

Charles Manson

#22. Moreover, during his wife's confinement, something had happened that seemed extraordinary to him. He, an unbeliever, had fallen into praying, and at the moment he prayed, he believed. But that moment had passed, and he could not make his state of mind at that moment fit into the rest of his life.

Leo Tolstoy

#23. That was one of the things that always happened to me after long periods of solitary confinement: i would forget how to talk.

Assata Shakur

#24. Like a fruit hidden among its leaves, which has grown and ripened unobserved by man, until it falls of its own accord, there came upon us one night the kitchen-maid's confinement.

Marcel Proust

#25. He proceeded on the theory that confinement within the walls of the prison was punishment. That the law never intended to confine prisoners within the prison. From a moral point of view, it was putting the prisoner in double jeopardy. Actually it was a double punishment.

Lewis E. Lawes

#26. Confinement, regulation, and excessive work have no effect but to develop in these men profound hatred, a thirst for forbidden enjoyment, and frightful recalcitration.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#27. I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.

Hark Herald Sarmiento

#28. Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons.

John Lilly

#29. 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 stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.

Tahir Shah

#30. Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.

Ingrid Newkirk

#31. I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.

Cecily McMillan

#32. It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the form.

Gerald Stern

#33. To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.

Sophie Kinsella

#34. For the first time in my life, which had for years been sometimes witlessly gregarious, I discovered the pain of unwanted solitude. Like a felon suddenly thrown into solitary confinement, I found myself feeding off the unburned fat of inward resources I barely knew I possessed.

William Styron

#35. Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

Virginia Woolf

#36. If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

Florence King