Quotes About Captivity

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

Siamo tutti uccellini, ciascuno nella sua deliziosa gabbietta. A volte voliamo fino a un'altra gabbia un po' più grande ma non abbiamo mai il coraggio di abbandonare completamente la nostra prigionia".

Japan had held 132,134 western POWs and 35,756 of them died in detention, a death rate of 27 percent. In contrast, only 4 percent of the POWs held by the Germans and Italians died.

were no windows. A large round handle resembling a

It is apparent that prisoners of war are among the most vulnerable of people. Not only are they completely under the control of their captors, but in a time of conflict, the hatred and brutality of the battlefield are very likely to be mirrored within military prison walls.

it's well known that captivity makes queers of us all—

I had a theory for a while, but I had to let it go. It was wasting away in captivity. It sat there in the cage of my brain and wouldn't eat. When I had first trapped it it was beautiful and wild and amused everyone. "Too much attention," the vet said. It wasn't cut out for that kind of life. "Smart

I had a theory for a while, but I had to let it go. It was wasting away in captivity. It sat there in the cage of my brain and wouldn't eat. When I had first trapped it it was beautiful and wile and amused everyone. "Too much attention," the vet said. It wasn't cut out for that kind of life. "Smart

It can never have understood why it was forced to live in such misery: bewildered by noise (as I imagine), distressed by smoke, barking dogs, cooking smells, teased by drunkards and children, tethered to fly on the shortest of chains. Yet even a child can see its dignity: thimble of bravery, all fluff and brittle bone. Not timid, not even hopeless, but steady and holding its place. Refusing to pull back from the world.

Trapped like a trap in a trap

Vera cried: 'Don´t you see? We´re the Zoo...Last night, we were hardly human any more. We´re the Zoo...

Adalar?n en iyi yan? insan?n istedi?i zaman kaçamamas?nda...

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

I really wanted to escape from that little girl. But it seems to me that the picture didn't let me go.

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.

They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.

We are prisoners of ideas.

On Aigburth Road, wind was doing its best to direct the shoppers, but failed to throw Rose under a car. Layer on layer of dark cloud piled up like sediment at the horizon. Against the sky trees glared, bunches of frayed rusty wire. Birds were scraps of light high overhead, in danger of being blown out. Above a church doorway a Virgin and Child were caged by wire netting, which rattled as though they were trying to escape.

But Nadja sensed his intention and said, It was just a game. You take captivity too seriously. If anything, surrender will liberate you from the burden of yourself.

The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.

I will go back to my life when women in captivity go back to their lives, when my community has a place, when I see people accountable for their crimes.

You go through different emotions when you're in captivity. On the one hand you say, my career is over. On the other hand, you say, my career's just started. See with these weird extreme ideas of where you are based on this capture.