Cage Quotes

388 Cage quotes by 323 unique authors

While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a… — Augusten Burroughs
I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders,… — Francesca Lia Block
Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage — Richard Paul Evans
Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous… — Scarlett Thomas
The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian… — Neil Gaiman
Here, kitty, kitty, Chico says. The cover of his cage is still on, making his tiny clown voice slightly muffled. I feel bad for him… — Deb Caletti
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking… — Peter De Vries
Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage. — David Mitchell
She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal… — Jodi Picoult
Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day… — Annie Dillard
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. — Khalil Gibran
How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go,… — Libba Bray
Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key? — Gregory Maguire
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage. — Victor Hugo
A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person. — Sharon Creech
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. — Ray Bradbury
Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn’t he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my… — Janet Evanovich
Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then… — Jennifer Rardin
I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band… — Conan O'Brien
Suggestions?" I asked [...] Marc never took his gaze from the cage. "Get the hose. — Rachel Vincent
That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's… — Laura Whitcomb
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know… — Eve Ensler
Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was,… — Sylvia Plath

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