Nadine Gordimer Quotes

I really don't like being in jail.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

You can keep a person locked up too long.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

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

I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was thrown into the death prison at Ava, where we lay eleven months - nine months in three pairs and two months in five pairs of fetters.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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.

To think that any animal would be trapped makes me so sad. It's like living in your bedroom for your entire life and never being able to go outside.

There's no way out of here.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

To arrive is to be in prison.

A caged canary is safe but not free.

There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

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

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!