Pierre Charron Quotes

In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Prison house for the soul

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The world is a penal institution.

To be immobile is to be in chains.

When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.

I really don't like being in jail.

I really like cages.

Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long.

I used to have a private... life. Now I dont have that... I have no freedom. I miss my normal life terribly. Its a prison-like life I'm leading.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.

The goate must browse where she is tyed.

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

The cell door slammed behind Rubishov.

People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.