Trap Quotes

469 quotes by 392 authors

Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The… — Annie Dillard
You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is… — William Goldman
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. — Edward Abbey
If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to… — Paulo Coelho
Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with… — Soren Kierkegaard
It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same… — Chuck Palahniuk
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself. — Raymond Chandler
I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap:… — Isabel Allende
By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep.… — Brandon Sanderson
Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it… — Eoin Colfer
The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I… — Ray Bradbury
Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating.… — Aldous Huxley
The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler… — Robert Ludlum
Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a… — Patricia A. McKillip
Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might… — Florence King
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become — Milan Kundera
While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes… — Tim O'Brien
Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy… — May Sarton

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