Straightjacket Quotes & Sayings

Torturous screams bounced around in his head, whimpers and cries of pain and lust clouding his mind, overbearing and foreboding. Sinning surrounded him, suffocating him, imprisoning him like a straightjacket. He tried to drive the noise away, to force it back and focus on something else, but the ruckus never stopped, never let up. It hindered his connection to the world outside the gates, muffling everything else to mere background noise. Blah, blah, motherfucking blah. This was his Hell: the inescapable torment he endured all alone. He craved silence but was awarded chaos. Instead of light and vitality, he existed in utter darkness. His Archangel nature helped him take it all in stride, but it was never easy, even for the one the world saw as the enemy. Satan — J.M. Darhower

Labels start out as little threads of self dissatisfaction but ultimately weave together into a straightjacket of self-condemnation — Lysa TerKeurst

For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudo-religious philosophy that he preaches ... I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did. — Malcolm X

He started skipping, but then caught himself and returned to deliberately pacing out his steps with his sheathed sword. People might ignore a tiny Japanese man in an orange porkpie hat and socks, with a sword, but if you went around expressing unrestrained joy, they would have you in a straightjacket before you could belt out a verse of Zippity Do-Dah. — Christopher Moore

There was no part of this house that felt inviting. Paul's cold, calculating hand could be seen behind every choice. The concrete on the entryway floor was polished to a dark mirror straight out of Snow White. The spiral stairs looked like a robot's asshole. The endless white walls made Lydia feel like she was trapped inside a straightjacket. The sooner she was out of here the better. — Karin Slaughter

The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straightjacket had been taken off. He felt liberated at being able to walk without flesh. The mosquitoes didn't bite him anymore. He didn't have to have his hair cut. He was neither hungry nor thirsty, hot nor cold. He was far from the lizard of love. — Leonora Carrington

No one is ever satisfied where he is. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Realize I'm done, so I close my mouth and stand there waiting for the paramedics, or whoever comes with the straightjacket. — Jandy Nelson

Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles. — Brene Brown

The exoneration of the mass. No one voice is to blame. But his voice was there. — Ian McDonald

When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket. — Cathie Linz

It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and their goodness and their wisdom while they live, making it natural for us to breathe the air they breathe and giving us confidence in our own untested powers. And the same influence in more ethereal fashion they continue to exert after they are gone. — Felix Adler

I'm with you in Rockland
where you scream in a straightjacket that you're losing the game of the actual pingpong of the abyss — Allen Ginsberg

I looked at him as if he was one Prozac away from a straightjacket. — Chrissy Peebles

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect. — Edward Weston

Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here. — Philip Levine

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable. — Honore De Balzac

The man was a lunatic who somehow could tap into sanity when he looked her in the eye. What did that man make her? A human straightjacket? — Mary Connealy

Does your mother make you wear a straightjacket at home?"
"Only when we've got company."
Jason questioning Timmy — John Inman

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. — Erica Jong

Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape ... For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place. — Isabel Allende

Save the world? I don't think so. I have my reasons. The world was lost a long time ago, and nothing's going to fix it, maybe not even science. — Austin Grossman

Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope. — Dagobert D. Runes

Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard. — John Updike

What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think. — Lance Armstrong

You looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people. — Sylvia Plath

He needed a stiff drink. With a side of straightjacket. — Kelly Moran

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. — Jaron Lanier

Blankets make great traps for the clinically insane, but a straightjacket might work better. — Nicole McKay

Political correctness has become a straightjacket. — Gary Oldman

There is not a single penal institution or reformatory in the United States where men are not tortured "to be made good," by means of the blackjack, the club, the straightjacket, the water-cure, the "humming bird" (an electrical contrivance run along the human body), the solitary, the bullring, and starvation diet. In these institutions his will is broken, his soul degraded, his spirit subdued by the deadly monotony and routine of prison life. — Emma Goldman

You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket. — Tom Upton

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket. — Richard Feynman

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression. — Benjamin Netanyahu