Quotes About Captivity

People whose magic could affect others in an overt manner didn't need to bite, he imagined, nor would they allow themselves to be held captive

People in chains had a tendency to look guilty.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body.

I lay there, no longer fighting, since my head was spinning too much. And because I wasn't going to win anyway. And because I kind of liked the feeling of sensual captivity, at least by this particular jailer.

For a chicken trapped inside the world of modern food manufacturing, to break out of the shell i sot enter a deeper darkness full of bewildering pain and suffering from birth to death.

There is no freedom for me here.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

The jailer is another kind of captive—is the jailer envious of his prisoner's dreams?

Radian. The prisoner's name is Radiana. Who is keeping her prisoner? Time, Stelio. Time is guarding the doors with his scythe and his hour-glass, as in all those old prints...

Tyrion Lannister: Dragons do not do well in captivity. Missandei: How do you know this? Tyrion Lannister: That's what I do. I drink and I know things.

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

Tired of Americans being captured and held for ransom, our third president decided to take on the Barbary powers in a war that is barely remembered today but is one that, in many ways, we are still fighting.

Maybe time is like that insect," Blink said, "trapped beneath the crystal of your watch.

Amber starts off as sap from a tree," Joseph said in the dark. "And sometimes insects get caught in it, and over millions of years the amber turns into a gemstone, but it traps the insect inside." "Oh." "A photograph is sort of like that, don't you think?

week days pent up in lath and

1.-Un pez atado pertenece a quien lo ató. 2.-Un pez suelto es presa para cualquiera que lo atrape.

Herman Melville

Billy made no demur. But, indeed, any demur would have been as idle as the protest of a goldfinch popped into a cage.

For a long time, now, the circus-running sun had raced within his fiery ring, and needs no sustenance but what's in himself. So Ahab.

and for long months of days and weeks, Ahab and anguish lay stretched together in one hammock, rounding in mid winter that dreary, howling Patagonian Cape; then it was, that his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad.

he took a cable which had been service on a blue-bowed ship, made one end fast to a high column in the portico, and threw the other over the round-house, high up, so that their feet would not touch the ground. As when long-winged thrushes or doves get entangled in a snare . . . so the women's heads were held fast in a row, with nooses round their necks, to bring them to the most pitiable end. For a little while their feet twitched, but not for very long.

the goddess Calypso, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him.