Quotes About Captivity

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.

My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

Why do men go to zoos?

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

The heaviest shackles and chains one can wear are those they cannot see. A slave with unseen shackles is the most bound.

That is how farm-raised crocs exist for the first three years of their lives, in a crowded, pitch-black prison, with constant, blaring music—then a sudden blast of light, a beating, and some food.

A caged bird set free may be caught again, a hurtful word that escapes your lips will not return

A prisoner of love is a person who is passionately in love. Losing that passion will set him free

In the middle of the kitchen table was an empty birdcage, the metal door ajar. A feeling of deep melancholy washed over her, the empty cage somehow seeming symbolic of Eddie Berlin's life. ~0~

Tu n'étais plus qu'un insecte prisonnier d'une araignée repue, qui te gardait en réserve pour un repas à venir. Elle t'avait capturé pour te savourer en toute quiétude, quand l'envie lui viendrait de goûter ton sang. Tu imaginais ses pattes velues, ses gros yeux globuleux, implacables, son ventre mou, gorgé de viande, vibrant, gélatineux, et ses crocs venimeux, sa bouche noire qui allait te sucer la vie.

Know thou that the love of thyself is more hurtful to thee than anything in the world. According to the love and inclination which thou hast, everything more or less cleaveth to thee. If thy love be pure, sincere, well-regulated, thou shalt not be in captivity to anything. Do not covet what thou mayest not have; do not have what is able to hinder thee, and to rob thee of inward liberty.

No, I won't let you go, Marcus thought fiercely. He was conscious of a savage urge to carry Arabella far away from here, captive, in his sole possession, until she finally agreed to wed him and give him her heart.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition Ã¢â'¬Â¦ —SAMUEL JOHNSON The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. —WILLA CATHER

Perhaps life itself occurred as a sort of prison she felt compelled to escape.

Finalmente, te quedas atrapado en tu precioso nido y los objetos que poseías ahora te poseen a ti.

What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom

Estamos todos atrapados. Es 1734 para siempre.

Women and animals, you only have to break them in once, he said. They stay broke. All