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Quotes About Trapped

Love is a maze.Once you get in it, you're pretty much trapped.
~ Tayari Jones
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
~ Omar N. Bradley
Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
~ Anton Chekhov
It is October and the days are growing short. Shaftoe and Bischoff, both mired in the yet-to-be-discovered emotional dumps of Seasonal Affective Disorder, are like two brothers trapped in the same pit of quicksand, each keeping a sharp eye on the other.
~ Neal Stephenson
He knew he was vulnerable now, cornered with one way out.
~ Chris Offutt
me. That's what it does. Nothing is ever enough. You get more, and more, but you're never happy. It's a trap baited with all the things you want most. That life—it's not worth living.
~ Christie Golden
In a voice both low and curious, he said, "You're not what I expected." "No," she whispered. "I suppose I'm not." Time seemed to slow and stretch. He observed her with intensity, as if she were a songbird he had trapped and would cage forever.
~ Christina Dodd
The knob turned easily enough, but the door remained closed, as if an unseen force pushed from the other side. For a moment panic welled up. The feeling of being trapped was overwhelming. Raven? Do you need me? Mikhail was instantly there in her mind, his voice gentle and loving. Just the sound of his voice calmed her. Did you lock me in? Not really, I locked everyone else out to protect you.
~ Christine Feehan
When he was reading he could fly away into the wildest skies of imagination, untethered to the reality that his soul was trapped in a wretched creature cobbled together from meat and bone, like us all.
~ Christopher Moore
When he was reading he could fly away into the wildest skies of imagination, untethered to the reality that his soul was trapped in a wretched creature cobbled together from meat and bone, like us all. Charlie
~ Christopher Moore
You've got the look, but you can't walk the walk or talk the talk. Tucker, you are a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, but out of the goodness of my heart, I will take you on as my student.
~ Christopher Moore
They do not care if they are trapped or not, for we cannot hurt them.
~ Christopher Paolini
It's like a haunted house we can't leave,' Neil said. A haunted house we're afraid to leave, Tony thought.
~ Christopher Pike
This is Teenage madness. Trapped in a room knowing there's more outside. Trapped listening to a teacher talk about Hemingway as if each sentence and word had mythical importance. Trapped knowing she is in the room with me.
~ Travis Thrasher
They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.
~ Upton Sinclair
It proved almost impossible to square the circle of ensuring crew safety and comfort when trapped in a riveted or welded steel shell of stored gasoline, high-explosive shells and machine gun bullets, sparking engine plugs, and incoming projectiles.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
He was—as always—trapped by the flypaper of good manners.
~ Kristin Hannah
In what can a person become entrapped? Ideas. Ideas of disability are first and foremost in entrapment.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Damon opened his mouth to snarl, "And now you're going to judge how much I love Elena?"  when suddenly he stopped, frozen.   He saw quite clearly the picture that Stefan was projecting of wide brown eyes in a heart-shaped face and tumbled strawberry curls, and he felt all the defensive fury of being trapped in the wrong.
~ L.J. Smith
Memories can be trapped in a room.
~ Laini Taylor
We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull.
~ Cassandra Clare
What's going on?" "We seem to be trapped in an episode of One Life to Waste ," Magnus observed. "Its all very dull." -Alec & Magnus, pg.144-
~ Cassandra Clare
He'd once overheard his mom telling her best friend, Judy, "Almost everything is easier to get into than it is to get out of.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.
~ Catherynne M. Valente