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Quotes About Trapped

I'm trapped here, in a nosedive, in my life, in the cockpit of a jetliner with the flat yellow of the Australian outback coming up fast. And there's so many things I want to change but can't. It's all done. It's all just a sotry now. Her'es the life and death of Tender Branson, and I can just walk away from it. And the sky is blue and righteous in every direction. The sun is total and burning and just right there, and today is a beautiful day.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Estamos todos atrapados. Es 1734 para siempre.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
La gente si innamora del proprio dolore al punto che non riesce più ad abbandonarlo. Lo stesso vale per le storie che racconta. Siamo noi stessi a tenerci in trappola».
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Coruscant is in chaos, and Mas Amedda is trapped. He
~ Chuck Wendig
This is Wedge Antilles of the New Republic. I am trapped on the Star Destroyer Vigilance in the space above Akiva, and I am in—
~ Chuck Wendig
I imagined that the building carried the sadness of the women who'd been trapped there...I didn't see them--there was no visible mass of ghosts peering out of the hollowed windows--but I couldn't help but feel they marked the territory.
~ Claire Messud
You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
One…two…three…getting closer, my heart hammering half with fear, half with relief. Safe again. Trapped again.
~ Lauren Slater
And I have the same heart in the same socket of chest, and it hammers the way it used to, and I find myself thinking the same words, Safe again, trapped again. My pals sweat on the steering wheel. I remind myself: I am not that girl. I've changed. I've grown. It's a long time ago.
~ Lauren Slater
The intricate gears of her mind ticking silently at no one, thoughts pinging the closed windows like a trapped bee.
~ Celeste Ng
All she could think was: I will be here forever. I will never be able to get away .
~ Celeste Ng
It was the kind of behavior that could only occur when people had been trapped for thousands of years, staring at the same sights, fetishizing everything around them, spiraling down toward the full-blown insanity of religion. You didn't need gates and barbed wire to make a prison. Familiarity could pin you to the ground, far more efficiently.
~ Greg Egan
Immortality would have been meaningless, trapped in a "machine" with a finite number of possible states; in a finite time he would have exhausted the list of every possible thing he could be. Only the promise of eternal growth made sense of eternal life.
~ Greg Egan
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.
~ Greil Marcus
Being trapped in the San José "is a test that God set before us so that we can think about the things we've done in our lives that were wrong," the Pastor says. "If we get out of this place, it will be like being reborn into the world.
~ Hector Tobar
Reborn.    I screamed and the scream woke me.    My head felt as if it would explode with the new knowledge. I wasn't a dog; I was a man . I had existed before as a man and somehow I had become trapped inside an animal's body. A dog's body. How? And why?
~ James Herbert
The clouds were as yellow as sulfur and roiling in thick curds all the way to the horizon, as though we were trapped beneath an ocean that was sliding over the edges of the earth.
~ James Lee Burke
eyes like light trapped in sherry
~ James Lee Burke
In our fields, on our fishing vessels, in our factories and our homes, there are people deprived of their freedom and trapped in a life of unimaginable suffering.
~ Theresa May
I feel like 'Birds in the Trap' seem united; it's just metaphor for ones in their box that are stuck and can't get their creative idea out.
~ Travis Scott
Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.
~ Florence King
The terror is trapped inside of him and paralyzes him. He closes his eyes again and tries to drown out the scream - but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing in his ears.
~ Suneeta Misra, Rani of Rampur
Reflecting on the process of involvement and disenchantment which was marriage, she thought that one entered it unsuspecting and, unsuspecting, found one was trapped in it.
~ Olivia Manning
gunman who didn't smoke or drink – was at bay, trapped in his sweetheart's apartment
~ Dale Carnegie