Prison House Quotes

“We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“And then we realized that the separation was destined to continue, we had no choice but to come to terms with the days ahead. In short, we returned to our prison-house, we had nothing left us but the past, and even if some were tempted to live in the future, they had speedily to abandon the idea –anyhow, as soon as could be– once they felt the wounds that the imagination inflicts on those who yield themselves to it.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague