#imprisoned

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

#flips #imprisoned #living #most #something

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#home #house #imprisoned #memories #paintings

Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for her. And as a result, in the eyes of everyone, she had everything... and yet she always, always felt she had nothing. No one. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#imprisoned #loneliness #saint-paul-trois-châteaux- #life

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#crisis #great #great changes #habit #him

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#chained #greatest #hounded #imprisoned #nevertheless

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#bishop #elizabeth #francisco #i #imprisoned

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#dictator #force #forever #hold #imprisoned

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet. ↗

— Joely Fisher

#any #being #believe #depriving #food

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. ↗

— Anna Freud

#his #imprisoned #infinite #life #like

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#earning #excluded #imprisoned #means #men