Bird Out Of Cage Quotes

#1. I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#3. There shall come a day when Birds shall be free ... and humans will see ...

K. Hari Kumar

#4. The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

Germaine Greer

#5. A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. If I release my bird from its cage, I think I have given it freedom as I watch it fly away. But, what good to the bird is its freedom if its mind is still in the cage?

Princess Mazzaloulou

#7. When it's like this, I don't notice the cold. I don't hear the wind howling through the empty spaces. I don't feel like a small, broken-winged bird trapped in a rusty cage.

Sarah Ockler

#8. Abby's eyes seemed almost as vacant as those of the girl in the photograph. Then a shiver came over her and she blinked. Gently, almost affectionately, she put the picture back on the wall. She touched it one last time and said, Poor little bird. I wonder if she ever escaped her cage.

Madeleine Roux

#9. The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.

Brian Francis Slattery

#10. I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but I see and feel the formative tendency of air in its form. When I do all this, then what lives in the forms becomes enlivened and spiritualized for me.

Rudolf Steiner

#11. I am the bird of the spiritual Garden,
not of this world of dust; for a few days,
they have a cage of my body made.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#12. He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

Khalil Gibran

#13. The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.

Victor Hugo

#14. Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

Arthur J. Lamb

#15. She reminded Juliet of the parrot the shopkeeper owned. Both the woman and bird belonged in cages, preferably the same cage, so the bird could poop on all that velvet and lace.

Jordan Elizabeth Mierek

#16. Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

Jaggi Vasudev

#17. Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much.

Priscilla Welch

#18. I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can feel the heavy thump, thump, thump of its feverish body inside and I open my mouth, not to speak, but to let the bird out so I can breathe.

Han Nolan

#19. Teach them the shame that tells the lie, "I am unforgivable," when the truth is, "I feel unforgivable, but it was out of my control." Never let them switch those round right or The Adversary will liberate them in a heartbeat, like a bird flying from a cage.

Geoffrey Wood

#20. Fear," said Lobsang. "An instinct that prevents many people from taking actions that they know, deep down inside, would liberate them. Like a bird in a cage whose door has been opened, we are free to go out in search of fulfillment, but fear makes us look for all kinds of reasons not to.

David Michie

#21. When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?

Randolph Sinks Foster

#22. The cage door opened and the cuckoo bird fell, fell, fell, until finally her stunted wings opened, and she found that she could fly.

Kate Morton

#23. If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Olive Schreiner

#24. Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

Dave McKean

#25. While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

Rumi

#26. He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly.

Colleen McCullough

#27. At core, no matter how kindly may be your thoughts of the human race, there are times when all you want to do is crumple it up and either set fire to it, or use it to pad the floor of a bird cage.
Big bird cage.
Really big bird.

Harlan Ellison

#28. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

Kahlil Gibran

#29. Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

Michel De Montaigne

#30. A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Sharon Creech

#31. In all his trials he felt encouraged and sometimes even upbourne by a secret force within. The soul helps the body, and at certain moments uplifts it. It is the only bird which sustains its cage.

Victor Hugo

#32. Resentment is a cage, talent is a captured bird.

Elif Shafak

#33. The only thing crueler than a cage so
small that a bird can't fly is a cage so
large that a bird thinks it can fly.

Caroline Kepnes

#34. A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.

Sebastian Barry

#35. You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

Aimee Mann

#36. There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#37. Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.

John Cage

#38. To us, she was like a rare bird that had escaped its cage and was roaming through a courtyard of common chickens.

Lisa See

#39. The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

Rachel Field

#40. We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Michel De Montaigne

#41. A loan is the scissors of friendship.
A man's own tongue may cut his throat.
The cage has no value without the bird.

Idries Shah

#42. The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.

Epes Sargent