Cages Quotes

367 Cages quotes by 307 unique authors

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and… — D. H. Lawrence
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages. — Tennessee Williams
What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur,… — Hunter S. Thompson
I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating. — Libba Bray
A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage. — Sylvia Plath
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage. — Billy Corgan
I am a cage, in search of a bird. — Franz Kafka
A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my… — Haruki Murakami
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
You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it. — Patricia Briggs
The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and… — Peter S. Beagle
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

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