Caged Quotes

84 quotes by 75 authors

We are most artistically caged. — Vladimir Nabokov
...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on… — Louisa May Alcott
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them… — Stephen King
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring — Robert Louis Stevenson
What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?… — Libba Bray
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
And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to… — Jodi Picoult
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I have to remind myself that some birds arenâ€™t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. — Stephen King
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying. — Isobelle Carmody
Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldnâ€™t even be rude to evil vampires whoâ€™d caged her boyfriend and were… — Rachel Caine
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars. — Johnny Cash
Youâ€™re crowding me. I needâ€” room.â€... What I needed were boundaries. I needed willpower. I needed to be caged up, since yet again I was… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for. — Tennessee Williams
In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And… — Patti Smith
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. — Nadine Gordimer
No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out… — Sonya Hartnett
Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged. — Veronica Roth

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