personal confinement Quotes

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

People are locked up in all sorts of ways.

For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. There are few demands to be met, and no commitment is required. Marriage, on the other hand, closes the door. Your existence is confined to a narrow space in which you are constantly forced to reveal yourself – and therefore, constantly obliged to look into yourself, to examine your own depths.