Imprisoned Love Quotes

#1. Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.

Bertrand Russell

#2. True awakening involves embracing every aspect of yourself with love and acceptance, including everything you have been denying, hiding or trying to fix. To deny these things is a judgment of them and judgment will keep you forever imprisoned within separation.

Leonard Jacobson

#3. To me ... she was spring. It was as if while imprisoned inside the dark cage of the inner family ... I had completely frozen into snow ... and then there she was
fresh, clear spring. It was almost inevitable that..I would fall in love with her. -Hatori

Natsuki Takaya

#4. Whilst I love still hiding ... games and puzzles to play, I'm not as imprisoned by that need to fill every corner with detail.

Graeme Base

#5. To be imprisoned by the need to be loved was to be sealed in a cell in which one experienced an interminable torment and from which there was no escape.

Salman Rushdie

#6. 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 fly
Singing about her head, as she rode by.

Robert Graves

#7. It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.

Apuleius

#8. Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

Harold Russell

#9. The trouble was, love was such a strong emotion. It made everything else unimportant. It grabbed you and imprisoned you in the moment.
Deathsworn Arc 4: The Temple of the Mad God

Martyn Stanley

#10. You Americans. You suppress the body of its desires, and treat the heart as if it is a wild animal to be tamed, so that when those things are awakened in you , they have the strength of ravenous lions, too long imprisoned.

Louisa Edwards

#11. Those 10000 days in prison, but this never made Nelson Mandela to leave what he was doing. He loved what he did and he would repeat to again if he had been arrested again and imprisoned again! He has his bigger picture in view!

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life
the unborn
without diminishing the value of all human life ... there is no cause more important.

Ronald Reagan

#13. Good people make bad choices every day. Sometimes those choices hurt people, people they love. We can choose to stay angry and remain imprisoned, or we can forgive and let go. Once again, it's a choice.

J.L. Brooks

#14. Jesus never says to the poor: 'come find the church', but he says to those of us in the church: 'go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

Tony Campolo

#15. When I saw you, I saw tears of love in your eyes. It tamed my fire of love and imprisoned me in a cage of desires.

Debasish Mridha

#16. That's the hardest thing of all
never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#17. He accuses himself, he curses himself, he implores my forgiveness!...He confesses his cheat. He loves me! He lays at my feet an immense and tragic love. ... He has carried me off for love!...He has imprisoned me with him, underground, for love!...

Gaston Leroux

#18. There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

Henri Matisse

#19. He'd imprisoned himself in this castle to rot. He'd cut off all contact with the outside world. And just when he thought he'd burned all his bridges, this woman - this impossible, sweet, foolish woman - arrived, determined to swim the moat. Breach his defenses. Make a home. Stay.

Tessa Dare

#20. Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

George Eliot

#21. I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit more of a responsibility when you then dramatise it.

Robert Sheehan

#22. No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.

Arthur Koestler

#23. It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.

Bill Shankly

#24. I talk of love, a scholar's parrot may talk greek, but, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.

Phil Keaggy

#25. My fate is a prison. It's the only one of us who didn't need to inhabit one. I took your responsibility for those souls for you, even though their deaths are your fault. You should be forced to feel what it's like for someone to be imprisoned.

Martha Brockenbrough