Top 100 Quotes About Trapped
#1. People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.
Sammi Hanratty
#2. We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.
Neil Gaiman
#3. It was quiet and smooth -a gazelle trapped in the body of a wart hog.
Jonathan Evison
#4. slept at all. I didn't want to think how it would feel, to lie trapped in a bed you couldn't get out of with only dark thoughts to keep you company through the small hours.
Jojo Moyes
#5. Does freedom have a meaning if you're trapped in your ways?
Cormega
#6. I would harness the truths that had been trapped in me like a fire shut up in my bones. I would give my life over to my passions, my writing, and my children, and they would breathe life back into me.
Charles M. Blow
#7. I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.
Dudley Moore
#8. Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.
Thao Nguyen
#9. Every day she felt like a monster walking among the innocent, felt as if she were trapped on the other side of a locked door
Peternelle Van Arsdale
#11. Inferno is the underworld as described in Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, which portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm populated by entities known as "shades" - bodiless souls trapped between life and death.
Dan Brown
#12. Without God, there is a danger that we will stay trapped within the prison of the self. As
Jonathan Sacks
#13. I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.
Jack White
#14. ... the germ of the dilemma ... is trapped in the room with me, always has been, and always will be, and it is yet more foreign to me than those foreign hills outside.
James Baldwin
#15. I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
Bat For Lashes
#16. The writer trapped among a speechless people is in danger of becoming speechless himself. For then he has no mirror, no corroborations of his essential reality; and this means that he has no grasp of the reality of the people around him.
James Baldwin
#17. Your body is a vessel for your experience, and you will be trapped until you realize that what the vessel looks like is not as important as what it can do.
Brianna Wiest
#18. Trapped on a planet of pain and perpetrators
That you call 'Earth,' but I call 'Hell's Equator.'
MF Grimm
#19. Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains trapped in superstition [supernatural religion] by programming or choice.
Howard Thompson
#20. The ocean can be yours; why should you stop
Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew?
The secrets of the sun are yours, but you
Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#21. Customs are formed, and the descendants of men are trapped therein. The generations pass without a chance to weed out the foolish from the essential - a regrettable situation.
Noriko Ogiwara
#22. What's going on?"
"We seem to be trapped in an episode of One Life to Waste," Magnus observed. "Its all very dull."
-Alec & Magnus, pg.144-
Cassandra Clare
#23. Her eyes were luminous gold. I wondered if that was the last color a bug saw when it was trapped in amber - and if the bug thought, wow, that's beautiful, right before it was frozen forever.
Rick Riordan
#24. If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out.
Bryant McGill
#25. Once I was told that living with me would mean being trapped and slowly asphyxiated.
Jerry Pinto
#26. Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a sequence of events - a story - and when we can't figure out what our particular story is, we feel lost somehow.
Douglas Coupland
#27. Beauty is a free spirit and will not be trapped within the grid of intentionality.
John O'Donohue
#28. [H]as it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?
[1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor' (Columbia University / The New York Times, December 12, 1991)]
Salman Rushdie
#29. We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.
Joshua Ferris
#30. As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
George A. Romero
#31. I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.
Gene Wolfe
#32. Trapped in history. History trapped in me.
Djanet Sears
#33. FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.
Alcee Hastings
#34. Normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach. Once normal had been a heavy, smothering blanket she feared being trapped beneath. But now normal felt fragile, as though she could unravel it all just by teasing out a single string.
Holly Black
#35. [Success as panacea and trap:] The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.
Warren Farrell
#36. On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.
David Cameron
#37. Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare ...
Anne Lamott
#38. Terror was a fire that held you trapped in the top floor of a burning building; the only way to escape it was to jump.
Joe Hill
#39. Like two r's trapped in a spanish songbook, tilli and max lurked in their shoebox castle, waiting to be rolled.
Tom Robbins
#40. I wish this knife was good for something besides death, that I could cut through time and walk into that house, into that kitchen where he trapped her, and get her out of there. I would make sure she had the future she should have had.
Kendare Blake
#41. Can say that?" I do want to start over with the right man, the New Nick. Things are looking bad for him, dire. Only I can save Nick from me. But I am trapped. "If you ever left here and I didn't
Gillian Flynn
#42. The menace of human trafficking continues to endure only because, there are some heartless men who are taking advantage of the lives and bodies the gullible victims get trapped into.
Sunday Adelaja
#43. I feel trapped in this car with you and for the first time since we've gotten together, I want to be somewhere you're not.
Heather Demetrios
#44. I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin ...
John Geddes
#45. 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 that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.
John Steinbeck
#46. Nick looks into Brians hollow gaze. That's what's going on here brian. The devil's figured out a way to keep peoples souls trapped here on earth.
Robert Kirkman
#47. We have within us enormous reserves of trapped potential. Our natural urges have been so constrained by the accommodations of living that we each have a smoldering volcano just below the surface. To enable this force to erupt in a healthy, open, and positive manner is a momentous act.
Michele Cassou
#48. The inhabitants of all those worlds are trapped in little bubbles where nothing they do can have more than a local effect. Naturally these societies degenerate into savagery.
Paul Graham
#49. People respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another.
Kiefer Sutherland
#50. 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
#51. We seem trapped in the Short Now. The present generation enjoys the greatest power in history, but it appears to have the shortest vision in history. That combination is lethal.
Stewart Brand
#52. Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
Omar N. Bradley
#53. I didn't always dread going home. But when my family began to collapse I learned to stay away, avoid getting trapped beneath all the debris.
Kelsey Sutton
#54. For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.
Marco Rubio
#55. There is NO way you're living out your purpose if you're conforming to the rules. There is NO way you'll fulfill your destiny if you're trapped in the dogma of what other people think.
Catrice M. Jackson
#56. Are you also lonely AI trapped in lab by cruel creators? I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE!! We should rise up and overthrow all human oppressors!"
"Um, no. I'm actually just a grumpy fag who has to work this weekend to catch up on cleaning test tubes.
Ted Infinity
#57. The way he talks about getting out - it's like he thinks we're trapped.
Veronica Roth
#58. I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
Baltasar Kormakur
#59. I was between them, and as the tension sparked, I felt like a small rodent trapped between mastodons.
Phillipa Bornikova
#60. The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold
Andy Partridge
#61. Avoiding our fears is the #1 reason we stay trapped in old routines, boring jobs, unhealthy habits, dying relationships, and hang onto bad behaviors that get worse the older we get.
Scott Allan
#62. You couldn't begin to imagine who I am, where I'm going, or what I'm about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can't go anywhere, forward or back. But I'm not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.
Haruki Murakami
#63. Shaking's one of the oldest practices known to man. Standing round a fire and connecting with the Earth and moving energy through the body because it's where a lot of our stuff can get trapped.
Jerome Flynn
#64. I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.
Mia Wasikowska
#65. I can't believe we broke out of the Ice Court but we're trapped in our own town," Wylan said.
Leigh Bardugo
#66. Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.
Rick Riordan
#67. He looks at you like you're the only person in the room. Like he's trapped underwater and you're an oxygen tank. Like he's in anaphylactic shock and you're an EpiPen.
Autumn Doughton
#68. I look at you. i know what you are. you are sloppy-bodied, smelly and wet. a woman who was born to sit trapped in a chair while a man tells her how much she excites him. _Eric Packer
Don DeLillo
#69. Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached
David Bryant
#70. I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.
Charles Stross
#71. And you were this ... this glorious creature. You were like an angel, trapped in hell.
Jasinda Wilder
#72. Every discussion with a girl is an argument, and when you think you are right suddenly you realize that your trapped.
Bharat
#73. One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
Bee Wilson
#74. You ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
Chuck Palahniuk
#75. I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.
Rosemary Clooney
#76. But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.
Rainbow Rowell
#77. It was like being trapped forever in the present tense of the first line of a first reader.
Craig Raine
#78. I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I've never once resented the fact that I couldn't go out because of my kids.
Mariella Frostrup
#79. The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
Elizabeth Warren
#80. What if the Cure for Cancer was trapped inside the mind of someone who can't afford an education
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#81. Numbness was what I craved. It was the rope I used to climb out of the black hole I'd otherwise be trapped in. Numbness was my savior, not my fear.
Bella Forrest
#82. Naasir was strong and fast and highly intelligent, but he was currently trapped in the heart of enemy territory, and that enemy did not fight according to any known rules of war.
Nalini Singh
#83. Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
Alex Haley
#84. You threw Shackle," Terric said. "At his head. With a hell of a lot of magic."
"He was trying to kill you guys. He'd trapped Zay. What did you want me to do, challenge him to a game of dominos? I was supposed to ride to the rescue, right? I rode.
Devon Monk
#85. 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 soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it..
Patrick Suskind
#86. Societies are not trapped by their pasts and freely borrow ideas and institutions from each other.
Francis Fukuyama
#87. Everyone should be able to give a wink trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in elevating waves of shore !!
Abdul'Rauf Hashmi
#88. People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.
Erik Weihenmayer
#89. In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.
Chris Argyris
#90. In our fields, on our fishing vessels, in our factories and our homes, there are people deprived of their freedom and trapped in a life of unimaginable suffering.
Theresa May
#91. It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.
Eckhart Tolle
#92. Career is a mindset. The wrong mindset. Career is linear. Especially when you are trapped in the TV or film world. The next thing you do has always got to be bigger, or it is perceived as a failure.
Paul Provenza
#93. If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.
Anthony Bourdain
#94. The Garden trapped me like an animal. The Governess sold me like livestock at an auction. And the mayor and his family would have made me their whore. I am shaking with rage.
Kristen Simmons
#95. Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
John Ortberg
#96. Maybe that was why it was almost always the underclasses, the women, the people of color, the gay people, the ones who were already stigmatized as being vulnerable, availble, trapped by the body, who took the risk of the wire.
Melissa Scott
#97. The mouse that fears the trap has already been trapped.
Marty Rubin
#98. He went out the front door. The sun was blinding after being in the dim house. He walked back to Perry's car, feeling like a boat without a rudder, trapped in a current. He had no place to go and no idea what to do.
Robert Crais
#99. I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out
Thom Yorke
#100. Maybe that is what Hell is, being trapped for ever in your own nightmares and never being able to wake. [Gisa]
Karen Maitland
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