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Quotes About Trapped

There was something terribly wrong with the child, and simply by crossing paths with him, Phil had caught his attention. He felt trapped in a bizarre otherworld in which everything was crooked, but the harder he fought to extricate himself, the more tangled he became. So, in the absence of better options, he stopped struggling.
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
I was amazed when I looked into her eyes – the eyes of a hunted, a cornered animal – seeking, seeking, always in the hope of something. . . She is possessed . . .And why is she possessed? Because she does not live the life that makes sense. Hers is a life utterly, grotesquely banal. . .with no point in it at all. If she dies today, nothing has happened, nothing has vanished – because she was nothing!
~ C.G. Jung
I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.
~ Gayle Forman
Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one
~ Gayle Forman
And if she'd been able to choose her options a few hours ago, being trapped in a dead vampire's private study with an angry Fae would not have been one of them.
~ Genevieve Cogman
You have caught me, sir, like a treen in a disabled space ship
~ Geoffrey Willians
The men performed their roles like actors trapped in a morality play
~ George Feifer
Perhaps he has realised now that he's trapped here and has to suffer with us and become mortal and die.
~ Iris Murdoch
He always felt trapped and restless when talking to lawyers or doing any business with them
~ Irwin Shaw
I've always loved the genre of virus movies or Armageddon movies - anything that involves being trapped with the cute boy in detention when the zombies are attacking.
~ Julie Plec
The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
~ Ben Affleck
Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
~ Kate Bush
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.
~ Tennessee Williams
They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.
~ Chesty Puller
Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
~ Suzanne Collins
bueno, primero tienes que imaginar cómo era estar en la arena. Era como ser un insecto atrapado bajo un cuenco lleno de aire hirviendo.
~ Suzanne Collins
If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.
~ Suzanne Collins
I thought three minutes and twelve seconds would undo me. Now I'm trapped. I cannot survive in this elevator. Not with him, Not for much longer Another second.
~ Elana Johnson, Elevated
People who are trapped in their jobs
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Picking locks was not a skill he had ever cultivated, but he persisted day after day, turning the tip of his talon into different ways of approaching a keyhole. He never tired, and he ever gave up...because if there was any justice in the universe, he wouldn't be trapped here forever.
~ Neal Shusterman
there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.
~ Charles Bukowski
theres no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one.
~ Charles Bukowski
Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars. They seemed unhappy. The world was unhappy. People were in the dark. People were terrified and disappointed. People were caught in traps. People were defensive and frantic. They felt as if their lives were being wasted. And they were right.
~ Charles Bukowski
crawled like a blind slug into the web
~ Charles Bukowski