Quotes About Captivity

Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust.

Yet though there is no visible barrier I know only too well that I am surrounded by unseen and impassable walls which tower into the highest domes of the zenith and sink many miles below the surface of the earth.

The world had become an arctic prison from which no escape was possible, all its creatures trapped as securely as were the trees, already lifeless inside their deadly resplendent armour.

It is surely ironic to fuss over how fresh the fish being fed to him are and how "authentic" his tank vegetation is when he is isolated, held captive, and put on display. The ritual of care disguises the violence, just like the preparation of sushi itself.

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle in

Whether you're beaten or pampered, fed the best foods or starved, kept in filth or kept clean, a cage is still a cage

Whether you're beaten or pampered, fed the best foods or starved, kept in filth or kept clean, a cage is still a cage.

let's do something cheerful all your designs are about captivity, it depresses me. Geryon watched the top of Herakles' head and felt his limits returning. Nothing to say. He looked at this fact in mild surprise. Once in childhood his ice cream had been eaten by a dog. Just an empty con in a small dramatic red fist. Herakles stood up. No? Let's go then. On the way home they tried "Joy To The World" but were too tired. It seemed a long drive.

The children are all crying in their pens and the surf carries their cries away. They are old men who have seen too much, their mouths are full of dirty clothes, the tongues poverty, tears like puss. The surf pushes their cries back. Listen.

I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: 'There. Now even if I'm captured and starved, I'll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while.'

I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive.

I used to wonder why they kept princesses in towers

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

inside the coop where he'll stay until he's killed, the rooster sings anthems to liberty because he was given two roosts.

Where can one think of fleeing, if the cell is everything? And

Creeds, ideals, a woman, a profession – all are prisons and shackles.

Love, glory, and wealth are prisons.

satisfied with dreams only when I'm not dreaming, satisfied with the world only when I'm dreaming far away from it. A swinging pendulum, back and forth, forever moving to arrive nowhere, eternally captive to the twin fatality of a centre and a useless motion.

He saw that there was something alive in it, and went near enough to read a sign that said, TWO DEADLY ENEMIES. HAVE A LOOK FREE. There was a black bear about four feet long and very thin, resting on the floor of the cage; his back was spotted with bird lime that had been shot down on him by a small chicken hawk sitting on a perch in the upper part of the same apartment. Mose of the hawk's tail was gone; the bear only had one eye.

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

There were times when I was terrified to go to school because it felt like a jail sentence.