Quotes About Captivity

We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

You see the fence as something keeping the zoms out. I don't. I see it as the thing that pens us in. We're trapped here. Trapped isn't 'alive.' Trapped isn't 'safe.' And it isn't 'free.

She raised her hands to wipe her face - and discovered she could not do so. Bonds bit her wrists. Chains jangled. Her arms were painfully constrained. Clearly another great day was about to begin.

Did he do anything bad to you?" "Apart from knock me senseless, clap me in chains, and bring me to Milton Keynes? No.

So, very soon our captives will meet their small countrywoman again. How grateful they must be to have a pleasant ride, with us to guide their way. Perhaps they feel that chains and sorrow are not too high a price to pay. What say you, Zanel?

I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to fall down. "Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing." "Huh?" "Scaredybrave." "Scave." Word sandwiches always make her laugh but I wasn't being funny.

I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape.

News has warped us now to what we thought our parents were. Our flags wave backwards in a non-directional wind force-fanning our irrationality and silent warmth that resists captivity or even calm.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Ade wanted to leave, to become a spirit again, free in the captivity of freedom. I wanted the liberty of limitations, to have to find or create new roads from this one which is so hungry, this road of our refusal to be.

Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

Rushdie is a hostage.

I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

I pappagalli verdi li trascinano nel buio, per sempre.

What's that like? 1) Picture being jailer to Harry Houdini; 2) multiply by five hundred.

I got a glimpse of something young, dark and happy and not yet spoiled: an animal that didn't yet recognize her captivity.

She was held captive by love, fear, and the church's promise that if she prayed harder, everything would get better.

The physical laws are but the bars of a cage.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

If you look at the primitive societies that we know about, the worst thing that could have happened to you was to be captured and be turned over to the women.