Quotes About Entrapment

All things have the appearance of solidity, but it's an illusion, a trick of perception drawn from our eternal entrapment in the present. Only memory reveals truth, yet even memory is but an eddy in your mind.

I unscrewed my own scrap of paper and read out: "Help! I am prisoner in the tower.

As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Il y a quelque chose de coincé dans le mécanisme

There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.

A fly and a flea in a flue (3 beats) Were imprisoned, so what could they do? (3 beats) Said the fly, "Let us flee!" (2 beats) "Let us fly!" said the flea, (2 beats) So they fled through a flaw in the flue. (3 beats)

Using an extremely clever if somewhat fanciful Chinese technique for ensnaring awkward visitors, they insisted that I was too important to travel alone and so stuck me with Mr. Fang.

A big part of serious fiction's purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves … I strongly suspect a big part of real art fiction's job is to aggravate this sense of entrapment and loneliness and death in people, to move people to countenance it.

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

Poor bird! Thou 'dst never fear the net nor lime, The pitfall nor the gin.

Out of this wood do not desire to go; Thou shalt remain here whether thou wilt or no.

a tie is a noose

I feel all around me the closing of a trap, and yet I do not think I am the one who is meant to be caught.

However intrigued by a "turn of the page," I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

With 'Downton Abbey,' you're always stuck in one stately home.

Hell is being stuck in a lift with Elton John and the Queen Mother.

Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.

Only the government could have made a 'terrorist' out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope….I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that there would have been no crime here except the government instigated it, planned it and brought it to fruition." Nonetheless

We made it up and then we were stuck with what we made up.

although entrapment in this case was only another word for love.

He took the bait like a rapist in a nudist colony for the blind.

Playing cat and mouse is generally only fun for the cat.

More than anyone else in the society, these men had apparently dreamed the dream and made it work. And what they did then was to build a place which seems to illustrate, as in a child's primer, that the production ethic led step by step to unhappiness, to restrictiveness, to entrapment in the mechanics of living.

Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I'd ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she's in for the one in which I'm stuck