Words matter. These are the best Confinement Quotes from famous people such as Limmy, Frederica Mathewes-Green, Susan Rosenberg, Billie Holiday, W. L. George, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I’d be fine.
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.
I spent 11 years in isolation units, solitary confinement… in the hardest places for women.
In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
You start to forget about the world outside – it’s not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is that you start to forget about cars and jobs and families and weather and politicians – and all the things that make up a society.
That’s the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary confinement for the first time.
Something people don’t recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement – like isolation.
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
If you’re living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement – if you can’t deal with this, you needn’t apply.
One thing about racing, a lot of times you’ll get upset with someone, yet we live in confinement here. It’s almost like we live in a prison and you have to try and get along. Forgive and forget.
I didn’t mind the 23 hours a day solitary confinement for the majority of the time, because after the first few years in prison, when I stopped being angry and started to like myself and understand myself, it was OK. I still enjoy my own company sometimes.
Those 18 months in solitary confinement… bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.
As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it’s only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference.
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men’s prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke.
Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields – uses of technology to link people together in networks to solve problems and almost certainly we’ll get better ideas than we would from them just doing it on their own.
As governor, I will work to reform the practice of solitary confinement, which studies and medical and psychological associations say causes negative mental health effects on children, pregnant women and people living with mental illness.
I cannot concur with those who advocate saving gorillas from extinction by killing and capturing more free-living individuals only to exhibit them in confinement.
