Quotes About Trapped

Maybe time is like that insect," Blink said, "trapped beneath the crystal of your watch.

he took a cable which had been service on a blue-bowed ship, made one end fast to a high column in the portico, and threw the other over the round-house, high up, so that their feet would not touch the ground. As when long-winged thrushes or doves get entangled in a snare . . . so the women's heads were held fast in a row, with nooses round their necks, to bring them to the most pitiable end. For a little while their feet twitched, but not for very long.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

He is admitting that he is trapped, which realization leads to his desperate cry that we have already quoted, "Who will rescue me from this body of death?" (Romans 14:24). In whatever words it is the cry that every alcoholic has repeated. If there is to be a liberation, it will have to come from without, or better, from above: a higher power.

What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Rigga, Riggalai the Seer, the wax-witch who trapped souls in candles and burned them. Souls devoured in flame—

A soul made weary longed for sordid ends. But a soul at its end longed for all that was past, and so remained trapped in a present filled with regrets.

Damaged children know only despair. When they are grown into adults, that despair lies at the core of all that they do. It shapes their lives. It makes monsters of men and women who in turn perpetuate the cycle of despair with all the victims within their reach. Often, those victims are their own children.' She turned to look up at Kolo. 'This must be forgiven. All must be forgiven. To live the life of a victim is to be trapped inside despair, and no soul deserves that.

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

In winter the Brine freezes over entirely and is said that the ice traps all the words that were being spoken as the water froze. In spring, when the ice melts, the air is full of the ghosts of conversation.

What are we but despairing souls trapped in lumps of flesh?

We are trapped on this world, Gimel. From this perspective, this moment of Now, we are trapped here forever. We cannot die, and yet, we do.

The modern hallucination in which women are trapped or trap themselves is similarly rigid, cruel, and euphemistically painted. Contemporary culture directs attention to imagery of the Iron Maiden, while censoring real women's faces and bodies.

There's nothing here. Nothing at all.' Marina gave me a look that I could not fathom. 'You're wrong,' she said. 'The memories of hundreds of people lie here. Their lives, their feelings, their expectations, their absence, the dreams that never came true for them, the disappointments, the deceptions and the unrequited loves that poisoned their existence... All that is here, trapped for ever.

I guessed she must be, at most, twenty, but there was something about her manner that made me think she could be ageless. She seemed trapped in that state of perpetual youth reserved for mannequins in shop windows.

sus sentimientos, sus ilusiones, su ausencia, los sueños que nunca llegaron a realizar, las decepciones, los engaños y los amores no correspondidos que envenenaron sus vidas... Todo eso está aquí, atrapado para siempre.

Caminó lentamente, despidiéndose de cada portal, de cada esquina, preguntándose se la trampa de tiempo sería cierta y algún día sólo sería capaz de recordar lo bueno, de olvidar la soledad que tantas veces le había perseguido en aquellas calles.

NEVER BEFORE HAD I FELT TRAPPED, SEDUCED, AND CAUGHT UP in a story," Clara explained

Brian and Lizzie were both really smart. Really quick. Plain basic types like Janie and Reeve could always get cornered.

He fluttered his eyelids, so that they were like pale, trapped moths in his sockets.

I am trapped in darkness, Erienne. I can only come to you when the night will hide my face, and yet there grows in me a craving to take you in my arms while the sun is high, when I can see you flushed and warm with passion. 'Tis my hell that I must be a beast of the night." -Lord Saxton

Dark Bakura [to Ry?gi]: If someone with a weak heart like you tried to solve the puzzle, you'd just end up trapped in a labyrinth of darkness.

Atem: ...The soul of the lost king of ancient Egypt, trapped in the Millennium Puzzle for thousands of years! That is who I am. Heh heh...after all this time, it's no wonder I've forgotten everything!