Top 88 Chained Up Quotes
#1. You're chained up." A wince pulled at Safi's eyes. "I upset the Admiral." "Of course you did." "It's not funny.
Susan Dennard
#2. He was desire, and I was his prisoner, chained up by his kisses. Submissive to his touch.
Candace Knoebel
#3. If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.
Bruce Robinson
#4. It is for the best was on the tip of the priest's tongue. But he thought again of years, of childbearing and exhaustion. The wildness gone, the hawk's grace chained up... He swallowed. It is for the best. The wildness was sinful.
Katherine Arden
#5. I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard
Alfred Doblin
#6. So, you've got an evil sorceress chained up in your bed, then?
Kresley Cole
#7. He smiled, chained up in his room, yet for the first time since they had arrived in this awful house, feeling so free.
This would be a fun seven days.
The Behrg
#8. Ranger appeared in the bathroom doorway and I was too relieved to be embarrassed. "I appreciate you coming out in the middle of the night," I said.
Ranger smiled. "I didn't want to miss seeing you chained up naked.
Janet Evanovich
#9. That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks,
So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I hit the streets.
Consequence
#10. They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.
Jim Bakker
#11. But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.
Edith Wharton
#12. In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
V.S. Naipaul
#13. No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.
Erwin Schrodinger
#14. I'd rather be a free dog running free than fat one chained
Thabiso Monkoe
#15. Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are the cause of your boredom. You cannot dance - you are chained to the past, you are imprisoned in the past.
Rajneesh
#16. Humanity can learn from those who have broken their chains. Those who have chained humanity for centuries cannot teach humanity anything.
Fidel Castro
#17. If you're eating or drinking something made from cow's milk, it's because a calf chained in a box somewhere isn't.
Dan Piraro
#18. My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.
Arthur Symons
#19. I get the feeling you're going to push me to that point and I'm going to have to show you how far I'm willing to go to get what I want." - Theoden from Embraced: Chained in Darkness
Nicholas Bella
#20. We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.
Russell Shorto
#21. To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.
Debbie Ford
#22. Rather be a thin dog that is free than a fat one chained
Thabiso Monkoe
#23. It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
Aldous Huxley
#24. It will never belong in a Hallmark card, but I drove a car into a house and killed a man for you. You chained me up for days and I still wanted to come back and talk over our darkly sordid, slightly kinky, and a lot warped relationship. Face it, you're stuck with me.
Kylie Scott
#25. The threat made Liam smile. There was something to be said for having someone like you so much they chained you to a wall.
Lyn Gala
#27. I rather be thin dog running free than a fat one chained
Thabiso Monkoe
#28. I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?
George R R Martin
#29. I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.
David Blaine
#30. My little sister here doesn't know it, but she puts up walls. Her heart is locked and chained shut from the world. She hides behind her books, and she doesn't let anyone in.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#31. Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. How could you have bought that girl, chained her up and yet still have managed to persuade her to give you a chance? I mean, how the f*** did you pull that off?
Kylie Scott
#33. If I have to chain you to a fucking wall to protect you from your own stupidity, I will!
Wrists. Beam. Chained already Barrons. Come up with a new threat.
Karen Marie Moning
#34. Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.
Virginia Woolf
#35. The hundred nights they'd sat up arguing the pros and cons of self destruction with the earnestness of philosophers chained to a madhouse wall
Cormac McCarthy
#36. But tie yourself up with a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! And all you have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with regret.
Leo Tolstoy
#37. It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#38. I brought you here didn't I?
Why so you can chain me up in your basement.
Don't give me ideas, Monroe or you'll never make it out of here. The only reason I haven't chained you in my basement is because I know you'll be missed.
B.B. Reid
#39. A new beer with sweat running down the sides slides into view and Pigpen sidles up beside me grinning like a crazy man. "Everyone's dying to know who you're texting with. It's like you're a twelve-year-old girl chained to that damn cell. Have you started your period yet?
Katie McGarry
#40. Power called to power among the Fae. Perhaps Aelin Galathynius was unlucky the cadre had been drawn to Maeve's power long before she was born, had chained themselves to her instead. Perhaps they were the unlucky ones, for not holding out for something better.
Sarah J. Maas
#41. You could think that you had won. But I woke up, I came back to myself. You won nothing. I transcended you years ago, I left you in the past, I chained you up in my dreams. You may leave me shaken at times, but never again will you leave me broken. You have no power over me.
Tamara Thiel
#42. Given that Liam had missed a courtship lasting several years and realized he was in a relationship only when he had woken up chained to a wall, he could very well believe someone else might learn the Rownt culture more quickly than he had.
Lyn Gala
#43. Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?"
"I missed you too.
Kelley Armstrong
#44. We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
Marcel Proust
#45. I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
Antonio Porchia
#46. When their mouths collided, the earth shifted, and she felt like she was coming face-to-face with death, and the brush was sweet, while he experienced life in the most shattering way.
Rae Elle
#47. The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#48. If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I've had a secondary career right along with my romance writing - cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick.
Ruth Glick
#49. He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.
Peter Ackroyd
#50. He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration of creating a world from scratch.
Barbara Klein Moss
#51. I wanted you to have your own life, apart from fear - even apart from me. I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#52. True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.
Rajneesh
#53. No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life lived chained to a routine that has killed your dreams. I
Kent Nerburn
#54. Only Loki was not a fighter. Only Loki stood at the sides and laughed, a laughter more deadly to the self-important gods than any sword or spear. No wonder they had chained him.
M.D. Lachlan
#55. People talk about grief as emptiness, but it's not empty. It's full. Heavy. Not an absence to fill. A weight to pull. Your skin caught on hooks chained to rough boulders made of all the futures you thought you'd have.
Elan Mastai
#56. How can the heart travel to Allah when it is chained by its desires
Ibn Arabi
#58. And we're not talking mild snoring, either. Imagine being chained to the floor of a cave, with the tide crashing in, louder, louder, louder -
Steven Erikson
#59. Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and pain
You never know when it will end, don't let a moment pass in vain ...
In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained,
I just wanted freedom, no more did I wanted to be chained ...
Mehek Bassi
#60. There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#61. Neither you, nor me, are "just vampires." Being vampires is just a part of what we are. There is no need to feel bound and chained by it.
Tomu Ohmi
#62. Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.
Emma Goldman
#63. Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.
Bob Marley
#64. I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
Rachel Sklar
#65. You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.
Tyler Perry
#66. I'd chained her up because I was angry. Everyone got angry at their partner at some point.
Cari Silverwood
#67. I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.
John E. Jones III
#68. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing?
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#69. I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.
Henry Miller
#70. Dios, she'd never come so hard in her life. How many people died this way? How would he ever explain to the ambulance crews that he'd chained his girlfriend out on the deck and killed her with too many orgasms?
Cherise Sinclair
#71. Living is like being chained at the bottom of a shallow pond with my eyes open and no air
Katie McGarry
#72. We who are immortal, we are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.
Cassandra Clare
#73. We are chained, but you just don't realise it...
Deyth Banger
#74. But I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#75. I am chained to the earth to pay for freedom of my eyes.
Antonio Porchia
#76. Lucifer, here brought so low that he resembles a giant centipede with countless arms and legs, chained on a fiery grill, exhaling and inhaling sinners.
Dana Facaros
#77. They sat a long time in silence, each chained to a separate wound.
Casper Silk
#78. The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.
Neil Cross
#79. They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies.
Bruno Schulz
#80. No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Bob Dylan
#81. I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose."
~ Haven Travis
Lisa Kleypas
#82. Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them most desirable.
John Stuart Mill
#83. I might have been chained, starved, and beaten, yet that monster couldn't totally crush my spirit. Over and over I chose to get back up and keep going.
Michelle Knight
#84. don't. I don't know about you, but if I'm gonna be chained to a rock by the gods, I'd rather go out as the person who brought fire back from the mountain than as a pure princess who didn't have the sense to say to everyone, "Oh, hell no, you are not sacrificing me to some sea monster!
Libba Bray
#85. Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.
Edward Abbey
#86. My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?
Jack London
#87. It would seem that when we are sinned against, when someone else does us harm, we are in some way linked to that sin, connected to that mistreatment like a chain. And our anger, fear, or resentment doesn't free us at all. It just keeps us chained.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#88. You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights! (Alanna)
Tamora Pierce
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