Quotes About Captivity

They moaned and squealed, and pressed their snouts to the earth. We are sorry, we are sorry. Sorry you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak, but you were wrong.

If it were a man, I wondered if I would pity him. But it was not a man. When I passed back by the pen, his friends would stare at me with pleading faces. They moaned and squealed, and pressed their snouts to the earth. We are sorry, we are sorry. Sorry you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak, but you were wrong

Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd, Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the Mind

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.

When the Word of God is ignored and violated, divine judgment is inevitable. The spiritual lessons embodied in the cold fact of the captivity may well be pondered by the church today, which too often has a form of godliness but without its power. Worldly saints do not capture the world but become instead the world's captives.

It's like living in the Arabian Nights. Being the favourite in the harem. But the one perfume you really want is freedom.

No le importa lo que yo digo y lo que siento. Mis sentimientos no significan nada para él. El hecho que le importa es que me tiene en su poder.

Algunas veces tengo un enorme deseo de gritar, hasta que mi voz se rompa, ¡hasta la muerte! No puedo escribir. ¡No hay palabras! ¡Desesperación, total desesperación! He estado así todo el día. Se apodera de mí una especie de pánico, lento, lentísimo... ¿Qué pudo haber pensado él cuando me encerró aquí?

In his eyes, as in the eyes of all Forsytes, the pleasure of seeing these beautiful creatures in a state of captivity far outweighed the inconvenience of imprisonment to beasts whom God had so improvidently placed in a state of freedom! It was for the animals' good, removing them at once from the countless dangers of open air and exercise. Indeed, it was doubtful what wild animals were made for but tobe shut up in cages! The Man of Property, p. 191

FALDER. [Almost eagerly] Yes, sir, but you don't understand what prison is. It's here it gets you. He grips his chest.

An escape was impossible, so he lost unconsciousness when anyone entered the room.

After almost eleven months of captivity, Mary was free again.

Next came "prisoners" captured at Boulogne, who were led through the streets in chains.

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Ein goldener Käfig ist und bleibt ein Käfig.

He is too young to know himself a prisoner.

It was Daedalus who answered. A golden cage is still a cage.

Une cage dorée restera toujours une cage

Una jaula de oro no deja de ser jaula.

Was there no hope? the tigress seemed to be asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?

May I keep this?" It was not a question. He was already turning away, placing her miniature painting inside his leather book and tying the straps, so that the bird could never fly away again, even if it had lived.

We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.