Imprisoned Quotes

208 Imprisoned quotes by 175 unique authors

Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and… — Robert Graves
She seemed imprisoned in her sadness. — Sena Jeter Naslund
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate… — Walter Benjamin
Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that… — Jack Kerouac
Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief… — Karen Marie Moning
she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of… — Confucius
If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be… — John Ortberg
[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be… — T.H. White
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon. — Rick Riordan
My worries always lead to dungeons; I can't imagine a worse thing than to be imprisoned for the rest of one's life, especially with so… — Lauren DeStefano
I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something. — James Frey
We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating your race that… — Karen Marie Moning
Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies… — Rick Riordan
We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives… — Paulo Coelho
The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy,… — Suzanne Collins
There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes… — Terry Pratchett
We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched. — Paulo Coelho
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things… — Stephen Fry
When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much… — Lauren DeStefano
For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible?… — Annie Proulx
Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures… — Jane Goodall
I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious." "I wouldn't judge… — Veronica Roth
Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me? — Alan Moore

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