Captive Quotes
145 quotes by 133 authors
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You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.
— Julie Garwood
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Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450
— Lauren Oliver
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What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's…
— Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.
— Lauren DeStefano
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Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!
— Rabindranath Tagore
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A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.
— Carl Jung
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Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.
— Ted Dekker
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Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet…
— Washington Irving
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Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is that of a…
— Deb Caletti
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Bran held his voice leve. "In time,you will regret these words. You may hold me captive now, and believe me helpless. But each foulword you…
— Juliet Marillier
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I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to…
— Shannon Hale
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My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
— Carl Sandburg
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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been reason enough. Until…
— Julie Garwood
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She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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Dreams can never be made captive.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I tremble because of the sufferings of those persecuted in different lands. I tremble thinking about the eternal destiny of their torturers. I tremble for…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?
— Julie Garwood
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And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't…
— Joni Mitchell
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The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which…
— Alain de Botton
Who Wrote These Captive Quotes
133 authors contributed a total of 145 Captive Quotes, led by these top contributors: