Taisen Deshimaru Quotes

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

You have no idea how many times I’ve been barricaded inside a box in my life. I know it’s for my protection. But that doesn’t mean I have to like it. (Kiara)

So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison.

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.

I don't know who I am outside of someone who's just trying to be free and find safety for myself and for others.

When I'm inside the cage, nobody will take anything away from me.

I have created a shell around me, in the good and the bad moments.

Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.

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

The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Here in my car, I feel safest of all, I can lock all the doors.

The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world.

He’d protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price.