Quotes About Trapped

La inmensa mayoría de la gente estaba loca. Y los que no estaban locos estaban furiosos. Y los que no estaban locos ni furiosos eran idiotas. No tenía escapatoria.

Qué es un cuerpo sino un hombre atrapado interiormente durante un breve espacio de tiempo?

We are all trapped by a singular fate, nobody ever finds the one, the city dumps fill, the junkyards fill, the madhouses fill, the hospitals fill, the graveyards fill, nothing else fills

people get trapped by using patterns of behavior to protect themselves against threats to their self-esteem and confidence and to protect groups, intergroups, and organizations to which they belong against fundamental, disruptive change.

Pinned under the air that grates like a claw Every time I look up to the sky I learn that I am trapped in this world If only that sky would crumble and fall I could fly to anywhere

The President was trapped – and with nearly every president, it had come about from his own words. Presidential promises and statements… The people had this annoying way of remembering them. And even if they didn't, there were journalists and political rivals never passed on a chance to make the necessary reminders.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

like two r's trapped in a spanish songbook, tilli and max lurked in their shoebox castle, waiting to be rolled.

If you could be a fly on the wall of my office the numerous times I counsel married couples, you would hear the same word I hear over and over and over again: Trapped. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked to help married couples not feel so trapped. One husband came to me after only six months of marriage, already saying he felt trapped and wanted out.

Then there was someone else I met, whose face and voice I can't forget, and the memory of her is like a jail I'm trapped inside, or maybe she is something I just use to hold my real life at a distance.

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose time had already passed.

They were trapped, by environment and finances, but mostly by the sick, twisted love that bound her parents together.

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

Cornered, she seemed to possess no mechanism for behaving well. By the same token, when not trapped or obliged to confront people or situations that upset her, she had a particular ability to think about them with apparently genuine pleasure. Martha

For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction.

It's the loneliness of people trapped within themselves. The loneliness of people who have said the wrong thing so often that they don't have the courage to say anything anymore.

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

I have to move fast, if I hesitate even a second longer, I'll lose focus and be trapped forever in this... this... toilet!

I don't know if it's scientifically possible, but I swear there's about six months' worth of trapped boy-farts in this room.

He would never want to diminish that event, that blow. It was nothing less than a calamity. It has shrunk his world, turned him into a prisoner. But escaping death ought to have shaken him up, opened windows inside him, renewed his sense of the preciousness of life. It has done nothing of the sort. He is trapped with the same old self as before , only greyer and drearier. Enough to drive one to drink.

And I saw how everybody dies and nobody's going to care. I felt how it is to live just so you can die like a bull trapped in a screaming human ring.

If we fetishize trauma as incommunicable, then survivors are trapped - unable to feel truly known by their nonmilitary friends and family.

Love is a maze. Once you get in it, you're pretty much trapped. Maybe you manage to claw your way out, but then what have you accomplished?