Quotes / Thrown Down a Well

"This is called an oubliette. That's French for "a place of forgetting". Your quarters, My Lady. No gates, no bars, no locks. Just walls of air."

—Maligant, First Knight

In any case, there's bound to be much crying
But the oubliette alone will let you think while dying.

—The Sixth Book of Bokonon, Cat's Cradle

It's a place you put people... to forget about 'em!

—Hoggle, Labyrinth

Lucky? Lucky? Sealed into this... this nothingness... by the power of the creature Supergirl? With its emblem displaying its dominion over me?

— Xenon, Many Happy Returns

Ben Rubel: What is this place? I can't feel anything... I'm cold from the inside out.
Supergirl: That—That is normal, Ben. It is expected as part of the punishment for the worst Kryptonian criminals...sentenced to the Phantom Zone!

— In Escape from the Phantom Zone

Jor-El: I am about to propose a more humane, less costly, yet equally effective method of criminal confinement...in the Phantom Zone.
Councilor: Whatever that is, proceed, Jor-El. [...] By Rao!! She's vanishing—into nothingness!!
Jor-El: No, gentlemen—into another dimension. Lara is with us in this room, at this moment. She hears every word we speak, sees everything we do. [...] She is a wraith, unable to affect the material world in any manner. Nor can it affect her. In the Phantom Zone, she feels no hunger, requires no sleep— does not age. She can neither touch nor be touched. She can only think— as our criminals will be forced to contemplate the folly of her crimes.

— The Phantom Zone

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