Vicky Krieps

For me, the costume is very important. More the feel of it than the look of it. I take it more from the inside. So if I wear something that's heavy, it will affect my character. Is it very tight, and do I feel almost imprisoned, or is it very comfortable? It's the feeling of the costume that tells me where to go with the character.

Luxembourger Actress

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

The years of imprisonment hardened me... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life... there is no longer anything I can fear.

South African Activist

Romesh Gunesekera

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

Sri Lankan Author

Ronnie James Dio

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

American Musician

Jacque Fresco

Our leaders pay lip service to the freedoms that democracy provides while actually supporting an economic structure that imprisons its citizens under more and more debt.

American Inventor

Stephen Kinzer

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.

American Author

Graham Greene

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

British Novelist

J. Michael Straczynski

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

American Producer

Nick Yarris

I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.

American Writer

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

American Clergyman

Directly relates to physically restricting someone usually by law.

Literal Confinement

Often used when discussing legal issues, judgment, or authority.

Use in Context

Imprisonment implies a serious offense, not something trivial.

Not for Minor Offenses

Used to describe situations where personal freedoms are figuratively restricted.

Metaphorical Constraints

Can express feelings of being trapped by emotions or mental states.

Emotional Implications

Refers to being confined by intangible barriers, such as social norms.

Abstract Obstacles

 Many of our stories are about feeling trapped, right? We feel imprisoned by our families, our jobs, our relationships, our pasts. Sometimes, we even imprison ourselves with a narrative of self-flagellation -- I know you guys all know these stories. The "everyone's life is better than mine" story, courtesy of social media.

How changing your story...

 to die in prison. We have life imprisonment without parole for kids in this country. And we're actually doing some litigation. The only country in the world. I represent people on death row. It's interesting, this question of the death penalty. In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question

Bryan Stevenson: We need...

 was here three weeks before I was scheduled to argue two cases at the United States Supreme Court where we were asking the court to ban death and prison sentences imposed on children the u.s. is still the only country in the world that legalized its life imprisonment without parole for kids

Talking about history...

 when his father stole a sheep, Confucius informed the duke that genuinely upright fathers and sons protected one another. During his travels, Confucius almost starved, he was briefly imprisoned, and his life was threatened at several points. But he was not bitter.

Who was Confucius? -...

 She had been imprisoned for her activities as an Allied spy, but with the help of a screwdriver and two other prisoners, she was back under the Parisian stars. As she began to run, her thoughts leapt to the whirlwind of events that had brought her here…

From pacifist to spy:...

 the tribe and the nation the reservation was a concentration camp it was a place to imprison the Native Society away from their ways of thinking from their way of living from the way that they centered themselves in their own world so how do

She Fears Her Tribe's...

 As he was about to be imprisoned, the king asked Thanatos to show him how the chains worked – and quickly bound him instead, before escaping back among the living. With Thanatos trapped, no one could die, and the world was thrown into chaos.

The myth of Sisyphus -...

 and asked me tons of questions. I was so scared. I thought my heart was going to explode. If anything seemed unnatural, I could be imprisoned and repatriated. I thought my life was over. But I managed to control all the emotions inside me,

Hyeonseo Lee: My escape...

 a seven year imprisonment fine if you get caught slaughtering cows but it happens nonetheless and so when the police get a tip-off that from a caring citizen that cows are being transported to slaughter they catch them and they

Sacred Cows Rescued From...

 to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and I couldn't quite make that fit with what I knew to be my childhood imprisonment. I read history books, and I couldn't find anything about it.