Trapped Quotes

512 quotes by 429 authors

Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me… — Alice Sebold
Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment,… — Cormac McCarthy
I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a… — Jonathan Safran Foer
there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. — Charles Bukowski
We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same… — Chuck Palahniuk
For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave.… — Italo Calvino
Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession.… — Paulo Coelho
Itâ€™s not always easy to get over some of those bumps in the road, those disillusionments and disappointments. Itâ€™s going to take a strong will.… — Joel Osteen
We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves. As author and mythologist… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if… — Rick Riordan
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. — Robert Anton Wilson
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of… — Paul Valery
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
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the… — Isabel Allende
It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right… — Bernhard Schlink
With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in… — John Steinbeck
A rose trapped inside a fist. — Henry Rollins
Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out. — Terry Tempest Williams
Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. — Arundhati Roy

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