Quotes About Entrapment

Narcissists, however, are similar to a spider that has built a web for its prey to bring itself.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

Thou shalt not write down thy principles, still less print them, lest thou shall be entrapped by them for all time.

They pretend they're keeping everyone out, when in fact they're locked in.

Idyllic memories are merely a jeweled noose.

When you've made them that much money that fast, they don't ever want you to move a muscle or change a thing. "You just stay like you are, girl. You are just gold! Stay that way, honey!" And they are so happy, but it's very boring for you.

If you want to stay here, that's something different. But thinking that you are the only one who can possibly keep her company - that's a trap." (p. 320)

She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery— boredom.

With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it..

So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.

The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.

if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,

He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,

For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.

Then the nations set out against him from the provinces on every side. They spread their net over him; he was trapped in their pit.