Quotes About Captivity

I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

Circus lions are mean. They don't know anything about affection training.

During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

You like it in jail? It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

You like it in jail? It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

The Eagles's 1977 hit "Hotel California" was a flawless piece of craftsmanship, but it was about upscale fatalism and gilded cages, about the hotel you can check into but never leave. It sounded as though Joan Didion had started writing lyrics. As

Arise! Arise! Put on your strength, O Zion! Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city; for the uncircumcised and the unclean shall never again enter you. Shake off the dust from yourself, stand up, O captive Jerusalem; release the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

The imprisoning scent of jasmine that always awakened in him a desire to flee.

threatening apes. What was this room? How could he get out? The green blindfold was now wrapping around his throat, choking him. His heart was pounding. He

You take my heart with you, my loving captor. Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.

He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been reason enough. Until she'd warmed his feet. Everything had changed at that moment. Duncan had known with a certainty he couldn't deny that they were henceforth bound together. He could never let her go.

More than iron doors, more than walls, it is the tiny peephole that really makes the prisoner feel locked in

I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.

The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.

In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women's freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that's what I had to deal with in captivity.

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.