Quotes About Entrapment

Everything was a trap, and the more Vaughn fought to escape, the more he got entangled.

A (catch) net (is) no good unless the person to be caught (wants) to be caught.

Cray, I've seen enough turkey shoots to know one when I see it. You set that little fucker up to dangle in the wind like a pro.

And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape.

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

Every invalid is a prisoner.

There are lies you tell with your lips and lies you don't need your lips for. And once people start telling lies, then they become like spiders who weave their web about themselves. They become stuck-caught by the lies all about them. And then they can't get out of the web, no matter how hard they try.

spiderwebs that looked expansive and sturdy enough to snare a flying dog.

We all crave latitude in life, yet simultaneously dig ourselves deeper into domestic entrapment. We may dream of traveling light but accumulate as much as we can to keep us burdened and rooted to one spot.

Sometimes when you're cruel to others, it's because you've gotten yourself into a situation you can't get out of.

The world had become an arctic prison from which no escape was possible, all its creatures trapped as securely as were the trees, already lifeless inside their deadly resplendent armour.

Humans were like sticky vines. If you didn't escape at the first touch, you got more and more tangled up.

Love, glory, and wealth are prisons.

Not all prisons are made of iron bars, some are made of feather beds.

or la captivité partagée n'est plus qu'une demi-captivité

She thought of how diligently she'd worked to free herself. Difficult because of the shock she was in, discovering she was trapped, captured most of all by possessions.

maybe it isn't love, maybe it's a chain.

Without understanding exactly how the trap got sprung, he can feel its teeth in him.

You can check out anytime you like,But you can never leave.

And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands.

He would be relegated to a post best left fastened and buried.

Austin's 'entire disappointment' in the marriage, and his entrapment, as a fly caught in a spider's web.

Slavery has never really been abolished. More people are enslaved to different things than you can shake a stick at.

MEPHISTOPHELES: Note that madam! That's Lilith. FAUST: Who? MEPHISTOPHELES: First wife to Adam. Pay attention to her lovely hair, [4120] The only adornment she need wear. When she traps a young man in her snare, She won't soon let him from her care.