Quotes About Captivity

I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free; then I was captured and became a slave; but inside me, I have never been a slave; even today, inside me, here, and here, I am still a free woman.

Le désespoir, c'est comme la prison, la mine ou l'usine. Ça vous lâche jamais.

those taken captive.

Their ornaments of gold and silver had been seized, as had monks and nuns who could be sold as slaves

Suppose a man to be a true believer, and yet finds in himself a powerful indwelling sin, leading him captive to the law of it, consuming his heart with trouble, perplexing his thoughts, weakening his soul as to duties of communion with God, disquieting him as to peace, and perhaps defiling his conscience, and exposing him to hardening through the deceitfulness of sin,—what

There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.

Duvall sighed. "Anatoly," she said. "It's me." "Maia?" Kerensky said. "They got you too. Don't worry. I won't let these bastards do anything to you. Do you hear me, you sons of bitches?" Hester looked over to Dahl disbelievingly. Dahl shrugged. "Anatoly," Maia said, more forcefully. "They didn't get me too." "What?" Kerensky said. Then, after a minute, "Oh.

She'd been caged for far too long.

He doesn't know, what to do, where to go, what will happen, the thought that he doesn't know seems to make him infinitely small and impossible to capture. Its smallness fills him like a vastness.

To say a tiger is an outside animal is an understatement that is best appreciated when a tiger is inside.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

And he kept himself captive of his imaginations.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said.

I saw her thus, solid, flushed, opulent and captive, returning home quite naturally with myself, as a woman who was my own property, and, protected by its walls, disappearing into our house. Unfortunately, she seemed to feel herself a prisoner there, and to share the opinion of that Mme. de La Rochefoucauld who, when somebody asked her whether she was not glad to live in so beautiful a home as Liancourt, replied: "There is no such thing as a beautiful prison

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

The investigating officer, Col. George Nauman, went to Fort Yuma, verified that Burke had never entertained — much less refused — such a proposal, and the two sent runners out to local tribes promising ransoms for the white captives. Word arrived that one of the girls, probably Mary Ann, had died, and Lorenzo, with the support of his neighbors in El Monte, petitioned Governor J. Neely Johnson in Sacramento, asking for help in rescuing Olive.

She gave her name as "Olivino," recalled her father's surname as "Oatman" and said she'd had six siblings, mentioning Lucy and Lorenzo by name. She identified her abductors as Apaches. Asked if they had treated her well, she said, "No. They whipped me." In response to the same question about the Mohaves, she "seemed pleased," noted Burke, and answered, "Very well.

Nailed to the beloved body like a slave to a cross, I have learned some secrets of life which are now dimmed in my memory by the operation of the same law which ordains that the convalescent, once cured, ceases to understand the mysterious truths laid bare by illness, and that the prisoner, set free, forgets his torture, or the conqueror, his triumph passed, forgets his glory.

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

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty