Quotes About Captivity

I am I (...) manacled to myself till the day I die.

La cuestión que le ocupa verdaderamente, igual que ocupa al gato y al ratón y a cualquier otro animal atrapado en el infierno del laboratorio o del zoo es: ¿Dónde está mi casa y cómo llego a ella?

that I had in effect given myself up as a prisoner to this war.

Stop it. Do not feel safe with him. The Stockholm Syndrome is not your friend.

Going over to their prisoner, Vishous performed a visual assessment on Xcor. When they'd brought the bastard in here, V had strapped him onto the wooden slab table face-up and spread-eagled, locking stainless-steel cuffs on those wrists and ankles and around that thick neck—and what do you know, the guy was right where he'd left him. Color was passable. Eyes were closed. Head wound at the rear of the skull was no longer leaking, having healed already.

It is unacceptable for a woman to be rescued from captivity from ISIS to come and not have a place to live, to be put in refugee camps.

I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

In war everybody is a prisoner.

In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!

All people are enslaved by something.

Dayadhvam: I have heard the keyTurn in the door once and turn once onlyWe think of the key, each in his prisonThinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

All the times she had refrained from striking her captor for fear of losing her life now seeking release, she struck that smooth jaw with such force she stumbled back.

Everyone needs freedom. If you're in bondage, get free.

A guard is as much a prisoner as those he keeps from freedom.

Les prisons les plus dangereuses sont celles dont on ne voit pas les barreaux.

Invinciblement, quelque chose l'attirait là. Il était prisonnier de sa propre liberté. Il ne pouvait s'arrêter. Il était obnubilé par ce qu'il voyait.

Just my luck,' sighed the endolg. 'Twenty million people in the Realm and I get locked up with a wuss.

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man ... , keep alive for yourselves.

A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.

I don't know how good mountain lions do in captivity. I'm curious.