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Quotes About Trapped

Leave town, Henry. Leave before they trap you
~ John Fante
astrophe the feeling of being stuck on Earth.
~ John Koenig
Creepo just smiles, like a python at a cornered rat.
~ John Larkin
I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.
~ Elizabeth Hurley
I knew I was having a panic attack. I hadn't had one in a while, though, and I'd forgotton how they made everything like it- and I- was going to fall apart. How they reminded me of how trapped I was.
~ Elizabeth Scott
He looks trapped, helpless and furious, and that's a feeling I know too well. Know how much it hurts. Know how it holds you down, how every day there are a thousand little ways to see there is nothing you can do to change who or what you are.
~ Elizabeth Scott
We all have choices. Some are harder than others. What I'm hearing is that you feel trapped. Sounds like you're the only one who can change that. Just make sure you don't latch on to the first life raft that comes along. It wouldn't be fair to anyone to find yourself trapped in some other way, now would it?
~ B.J. Daniels
But he had to think like a character in a Chekhov play, forever taunted by desires but trapped in a life much too small to accommodate the entirety of a human being. That was why Chekhov was eternally beloved.
~ Gary Shteyngart
A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which you realize that you are trapped in a world almost entirely devoid of reason. Laughter is how you release the anxiety you feel at this knowledge.
~ Gene Weingarten
I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.
~ Gene Wolfe
You are trapped in that bright moment where you learned your doom
~ Samuel R. Delany
I wanted to get out, Vyme, to keep going and not be trapped, to be free.... only I was cruel. I had the chance to do it, and I took it. Why is that bad, Vyme? Unless, of course, that's what being free means.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Know then this journey seeks to define ends, seeks shores where farther oceans start; caged by the over-muscled heart, we are trapped in that bright moment where we learned our doom, but still we struggle, knowing, too, that freedom is imposed the very moment when the trap springs...
~ Samuel R. Delany
I Like things that are trapped,' he explained. 'Too many things leave us forever.'
~ Sara Shepard
Fact is, the Rebels were trapped so tight in their harebrained dream of what the South was, even death wouldn't release them.
~ Sarah Bird
Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.
~ John Cusack
spotted the playwright in a crowd of shiny-faced people, all scrambling to be photographed with him. He had plastered a smile on his face, but he looked bereft and empty. Trapped. It was the most chilling image of fame I had ever seen thus far.
~ Armistead Maupin
This is my life. Born in a generation that craves distraction and escape. We are, after all, kids trapped in adult bodies. Kinda makes you wonder how we'll change the world.
~ Arnold Arre
Why do I think you did it? Because you were trapped upside down in a tankful of water. Because you were weak and in pain. Because you were tired of fighting.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Is this because I think suicide can be justifiable? Plato thought so. Seneca thought so. But what do I think? Why do I think you did it? Because you were trapped upside down in a tankful of water. Because you were weak and in pain. Because you were tired of fighting.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Monkeys are dangerous animals. Don't be fooled by the cute exterior, Eve said like she was imparting some sage wisdom. Look, I explained, I'm sure those monkeys were just mad about something like being trapped in a cage or being forced to wear velvet vests and dance to accordion music.
~ Sloane Tanen
After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.
~ Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls
For how long would I be trapped in the condition of melancholy without going insane?
~ Neda Aria
Miss Destiny said, "there is a God, and He is one hell of a joker. Just—look—" and she indicates her lovely green satin dress and then waves her hand over the entire room. "Trapped! . . . But one day, in the most lavish drag youve evuh seen—heels! and gown! and beads! and spangled earrings!—Im going to storm heaven and protest! Here I am!!!!! I'll yell—and I'll shake my beads at Him. . . . And God will cringe!
~ John Rechy