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Quotes About Bondage

I do like my hair being pulled from time to time, it's like a pair of reins, innit?
~ Katie Price
We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
~ Boris Pasternak
Nina's wrists and ankles were rubbed raw from the handcuffs and ankle cuffs that chained her to the wall. The skin had been whipped from her back; even the slightest touch of her shirt against her spine sent pain shrieking through her body. One of her eyes seemed to be swollen shut from the beating.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
its like you said? i lead my people- forth! zifnab carried on enthusiastically! out of eygpt! out of bondage! across the desert! pillar of fire- desert? lenthan looked anxious again. fire? i thought we were going to the stars! sorry. wrong script zifnab said
~ Margaret Weis
Estamos atados por tantas ligaduras en que hemos vivido que nos parece que al alejarnos será también más fácil alejarnos de nosotros mismos.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
The free world is shuffling into a psychological bondage whose chains are mostly of our own making.
~ Mark Steyn
And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.
~ James Frey
In appearance, the worldly life looks attractive, but once you enter into it, you can never become free.
~ Dada Bhagwan
In a place of purity, if one does not follow the conduct of that place, there will be tremendous (karma) bondage. He will bind a life in hell!
~ Dada Bhagwan
Prayer for today:Dear Lord, the eternal ecstatic joy within me is often turned into bondage by my labeling mind. Please, give me some meditative wisdom.
~ Saurabh Sharma
Nations grown corrupt Love bondage more than liberty; Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
~ John Milton
God loves us by liberating us from the bondage of self so that we can enjoy knowing and admiring him forever.
~ John Piper
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
~ John Quincy Adams
Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
~ John Stuart Mill
Call no man free nor count his bondage done, Though he be master of unminted gold With kings to do him homage, if his hold Be not so strong on the immortal sun--The shining, heliocentric Self—that none May loosen it.
~ barker elsa v
Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage: for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Sudden as a knife you thrust into my sorry heart and strong as a host of demons came, gaudy and libertine, to make in my corrupted mind your bed and bedlam there; Beast, who bind me to you close as convict to his chains.
~ baudelaire charles iii
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
~ Baltasar Gracian
A man is enslaved to anything he cannot part with which is less than himself.
~ George MacDonald
A man is in bondage to what ever he cannot part with that is less than himself.
~ George MacDonald
What Qatar chose is a system where a worker is owned by his employer. When your employer forces you to live in squalor, makes you work longest hours in extreme heat, doesn't allow you to change jobs, doesn't pay your wages on time, abuses you physically and psychologically, you have no way out, you can't leave. You are trapped.
~ Sharan Burrow
I'm a worker, but I think that all workers get an idea of what to do to get free. Any kind of bondage, even economic bondage, is slavery.
~ Sixto Rodriguez
WORSHIP ME ONLY. Whatever occupies your mind the most becomes your god. Worries, if indulged, develop into idols. Anxiety gains a life of its own, parasitically infesting your mind. Break free from this bondage by affirming your trust in Me and refreshing yourself in My Presence. What
~ Sarah Young