Confined Existence Quotes

I tried to be a good wife, but I was lost in my gilded cage.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!

If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that.

And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.

But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events, and seem each to believe that the walls and curtains which shut in their world, and shut out everything else, must of necessity be larger than anything hidden beyond.

And the walls became the world all around.

In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

My world is kind of small.

I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.