Quotes About Entrapment

Sometimes we have undesirable habits and we want to correct them. And there are times when we are strongly tempted to do wrong. Then, like an insect caught in a spider's web, we struggle to get free. Our conscious will is in conflict with our imagination and the will of our subconscious mind. The more we struggle, the more we become entrapped.

Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!

The enemy's ways are anything but original. He's been trapping people the same way since the beginning of time.

at least this way we're safe in a room with a door that locks. And the sign says they have HBO. That stands for Horrible Bloody Ohmygod. Eve said. which is the way they kill you. When you think you're safe.

Stay where I am? Jesus Christ, what choice do I have? This house is twenty-five hundred square feet of tomb. I'm not alive. I'm buried alive.

He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at least that was the way it seemed at the time he had thought to himself, I am locked in, it was like one of those ghost stories where you wake up and you are sealed in a coffin.

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.

You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.

Let them fall into the snare which they have laid.

Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

I always tell everyone wrestling is like the mafia, once you get in, you can't get out.

A golden cage is still a cage.

Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it, I still think I can escape.

We are the sole creators of the system which entraps us.

Definition merely adds the locks to a world that is assumed to be closed.

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!

Une cage dorée restera toujours une cage

Una jaula de oro no deja de ser jaula.

He feels as though he is caught in a web of absence, its strings and tendrils ready to stick and cling to him, whichever way he turns.

I guess a man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.

He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the heads off the flowers.

Oh no, no," said the little fly; "to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again.

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness," he once wrote. "Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.