Quotes About Captivity

Does the ore feel trapped in coins and gears? does it feel homesick for earth?

He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.

The sight of it made the earth seem unearthly. They were accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there-- there you could look at a thing monstrous, beautiful, and free.

This man suffered too much. He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. When I had a chance I begged him to try and leave while there was time; I offered to go back with him. And he would say yes, and then he would remain...

What captivated my fancy was that I, Axel Heyst, the most detached of creatures in this earthly captivity, the veriest tramp on this earth, an indifferent stroller going through the world's bustle—that I should have been there to step into the situation of an agent of Providence. I, a man of universal scorn and unbelief...

Todas sus costillas eran visibles y las articulaciones de sus miembros parecían nudos; y cada uno llevaba un collar de hierro, atados entre sí por una cadena que oscilaba en un tintinear rítmico.

Doc Daneeka hated to fly. He felt imprisoned in an airplane. In an airplane there was absolutely no place in the world to go except to another part of the airplane.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

Home. Home is just a word. Thin on meaning. It's a word that can hold you hostage, keep you from living your life.

Katya stood in the doorway at the rear of Mr Kidder's studio and could not seem to step out onto the terrace and run away. Panting like a dog that has been trained by his master and can't break out of his training, though his training has hurt, humbled, humiliated him and enslaved him.

En 2 Corintios 10:4-5 queda muy claro que tenemos que conocer la Palabra de Dios lo suficientemente bien como para ser capaces de comparar lo que tenemos en la mente con lo que Dios tiene en Su mente; cualquier pensamiento que intente exaltarse por encima de la Palabra de Dios hemos de aplastarlo y traerlo cautivo a Jesucristo.

He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners… ISAIAH 61:1 NIV

refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and I lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed one). —2 CORINTHIANS 10:5

He smiled. 'Now I have you in a cage.And whenever I want you,I'll take you out, and when I've done with you, I'll set you back in.

He gave me a look of mingled anticipation, curiosity, and compassion, like a cat with a captive bird in its claws.

They starred into each others eyes even as the guards took hold of Antoinette. She did not utter a word, but a gleam in her and the peaceful expression on her face spoke volumes to Aidan. The cell door slammed shut, and Aidan stood alone in the center of the room

Our cell was near the women's cell, and sometimes they'd come for a specific girl, calling out her name and the name of her town. We knew that they were raping her, because they always took her during the shift of a particular officer.

I think of animals in cages, pressed close against each other.

Would it not be downright cruel to keep him in semi-captivity in a town or city, where the opportunities for wreaking havoc and destruction upon the landscape are necessarily so limited? In a word, is it right to attract Wombats?

La prigione è il presente. Il presente è ciò da cui cercavano di fuggire quelli che sono in prigione.

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.

On an errand that was not likely to be pleasing if explained to the guard, with no papers in my pocket, with a captor whose very look was enough to terrify anyone, and in a jail that would rival in filthiness any that the Inquisition ever had, I think there are few men who would not have paled," he later wrote.

Dragana oslobodi me veza svoje slrasti! Ni kapi više toga vina od poljubaca. Ova magla od teškog tamjana guši mi srce. Otvori vrata i propusti jutarnji zrak. Izgubljen sam u tebi, zarobljen u zagrljaju tvoje nežnosti. Oslobodi me svoje draži, i povrati mi hrabrosti da ti ponudim svoje slobodno srce.

Well – at least Binky's in a zoo.' 'Yes, he's in a zoo, where they keep wild hunting dogs and lions. They all get on so well, it's like Madagascar 3 in here.