Top 100 Quotes About Chained
#1. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing?
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#2. 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
#3. I'd chained her up because I was angry. Everyone got angry at their partner at some point.
Cari Silverwood
#4. You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.
Tyler Perry
#5. 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
#6. Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.
Bob Marley
#7. Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.
Emma Goldman
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#13. How can the heart travel to Allah when it is chained by its desires
Ibn Arabi
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life lived chained to a routine that has killed your dreams. I
Kent Nerburn
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights! (Alanna)
Tamora Pierce
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Bob Dylan
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. They sat a long time in silence, each chained to a separate wound.
Casper Silk
#33. 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
#34. I am chained to the earth to pay for freedom of my eyes.
Antonio Porchia
#35. 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
#36. We are chained, but you just don't realise it...
Deyth Banger
#37. 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
#38. Living is like being chained at the bottom of a shallow pond with my eyes open and no air
Katie McGarry
#39. 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
#40. They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies.
Bruno Schulz
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. I rather be thin dog running free than a fat one chained
Thabiso Monkoe
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Rather be a thin dog that is free than a fat one chained
Thabiso Monkoe
#49. 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
#50. We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.
Russell Shorto
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Humanity can learn from those who have broken their chains. Those who have chained humanity for centuries cannot teach humanity anything.
Fidel Castro
#55. 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
#56. I'd rather be a free dog running free than fat one chained
Thabiso Monkoe
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
Antonio Porchia
#64. He was desire, and I was his prisoner, chained up by his kisses. Submissive to his touch.
Candace Knoebel
#65. We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
Marcel Proust
#66. I didn't know enough to hold myself back. Now I was too aware, hyperaware, and so the fear chained me.
Michelle Hodkin
#67. 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
#68. As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the suffering of our fellow-prisoners; decorate the dungeon with flowers and air-cushions; be as decent as we possibly can.
Virginia Woolf
#69. hell is boiling over. And heaven is full. We're chained to the world. And we all gotta pull. And we're all gonna be ...just dirt in the ground".
Tom Waits
#70. Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#71. Millennia of servitude, Abhorsen. Chained by trickery, treachery ... captivenin a repulsive, fixed-flesh shape ... but there will be payment, slow payment - not quick, not quick at all!
Garth Nix
#72. Landry, I'm free. Well, I'll be free as soon as I tell my mom I quit. Or, as free as I can be with my heart chained to yours.
Megan Erickson
#73. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird.
Laura Hillenbrand
#74. Asleep, he looks like a bleeding Prince Charming chained in the dungeon. When I was little, I always thought I'd be Cinderella, but I guess this makes me the wicked witch.
But then again, Cinderella didn't live in a post-apocalyptic world invaded by avenging angels.
Susan Ee
#75. Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Noel Fisher
#76. How happy I will be if I keep my heart free from attachment to anyone, and chained to Jesus, my God, alone ... I will devote all my efforts to this end ... I will go before the Blessed Sacrament, and there sign these resolutions with my blood.
Peter Julian Eymard
#77. People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties ... they live like ants.
Bela Lugosi
#78. Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this is our enslavement.
Rebecca Goldstein
#79. All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade
Noel Gallagher
#80. Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
Aristophanes
#81. It seems that if I am afraid, then I am "stuck" with fear. But in fact I am chained to the fear only so long as I am trying to get away from it. On the other hand, when I do not try to get away I discover that there is nothing "stuck" or fixed about the reality of the moment.
Alan W. Watts
#82. Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing.
Dara Horn
#83. 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
#84. There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.
Cassandra Clare
#85. I don't like this, Artemis. I'm not a dog to be chained outside your house because you're afraid I'll piss on your rug. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#86. A fool is surrounded by blessings, but is chained by folly and thus cannot reach them. A wise person is surrounded by blessings, and has extra-long arms to reach for them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#87. I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
Dorothea Dix
#88. 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
#89. How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Ibn Arabi
#90. The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
Neil Armstrong
#91. A mentally-unchained physically-chained man is more free than a physically-unchained mentally-chained man.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#92. 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
#94. Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.
Tupac Shakur
#95. Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. Until our mission becomes our obsession, we'll be chained to the realm of average.
Robin Sharma
#97. From a crude rocket in a weedy field to Explorer and beyond, the human race had broken the bonds of gravity to which they had been chained since the beginning of time.
Stuart A. Kallen
#98. How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.
Helen Keller
#99. Death isn't empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom ... Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, fear of death. I say we break those chains.
Pierce Brown
#100. Ruby's eyes shot open when she woke, for she felt a constraint around her wrists and ankles. Feeling with her fingers, she touched cold metal. Her small movement gave the chains a slight jingle. A sinking feeling washed over her at the realization that she was chained.
Jettie Necole
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