Top 82 Trapped Inside Quotes
#1. There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death.
Donna Tartt
#2. What if the Cure for Cancer was trapped inside the mind of someone who can't afford an education
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#3. The way he looks at me- steady and silent, bold and bright - makes me feel as if the storm outside were trapped inside me, thunder and rain and light, rolling and crashing.
Jessica Khoury
#4. [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
#6. Playing it safe and tiptoeing through life is exhausting. Keeping all of your gifts trapped inside tires the crap out of you. It takes the same amount of effort to create something extraordinary as it takes to create something ordinary.
Lysa Mateu
#7. I'm trapped inside of me and I don't go out at all. I go to bed at eight o'clock at night. I never go out during the week. I'm in psychotherapy four days a week, pretty heavy commitment to it.
Howard Stern
#8. We're all irrevocably trapped inside our own minds: just as it's impossible for anyone to truly know us, we can't begin to hope to know anyone else.
Abigail Haas
#9. It must be an awful feeling to have love all around you and not feel loved, to be in need and unable to accept whats being offered, to see a world of possibilities but trapped inside your own mind.
Tracy L. Darity
#10. The 9th chamber, leave you trapped inside my hallway
You try to flee but you got smoked up by the doorway (blaow! blaow! blaow!)
No question, I send your ass back, right to the essence
Your whole frame is smothered in dirt, now how you restin
Ghostface Killah
#11. To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.
Patrick Rothfuss
#12. So many times you've taken my breath away or made it feel like my heart was trapped inside my stomach. But last night was more than any fourteen-year-old boy could handle. So I took your face in my hands and I kissed you, just like I've been dreaming of doing for over a year now.
Colleen Hoover
#13. I walked around as you do, investigating
the endless star,
and in my net, during the night,
I woke up naked,
the only thing caught,
a fish trapped inside the wind.
Pablo Neruda
#14. I mind-melded the details trapped inside my head since it felt easier than talking, which surprised me." -- Jennifer Mills from Soul Reader by: Dianne Bright
Dianne Bright
#15. Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.
Lev Grossman
#16. Once upon a time she had felt trapped inside her story with its familiar characters and predictable plot. Now she felt locked out of it.
Roderick Townley
#17. As I move along the line, other food items are plunked onto my tray: a small salad of iceberg lettuce and bacos, a slice of white bread with a pat of Hotel Holiday butter and blob of red Jell-O with fruit cocktail trapped inside. Instantly, I feel compassion for the trapped fruit.
Augusten Burroughs
#18. My words are like Mummy: butterflies trapped inside a net.
Holly Bodger
#19. As if he had turned into one of those sarcophagi lined with bristling nails. He wanted to flee himself, unshackle himself from the excruciating substance he was made of, but he was trapped inside the martyred flesh.
Felix J. Palma
#20. (Addie) I said. (If it had been you - if it were you trapped inside. If you were the one who couldn't move, I'd go back. I'd go back in a second.)
Kat Zhang
#21. I found myself stuck into a Gertrude's Dream Waltz universe. Like Gertrude, I was trapped inside a body that bellied little of the person inside, while simultaneously ensnared in a home filled with people that looked like the person inside the unsightly body.
Luella Christie
#22. Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on the wall. The skull is our cave, and mental representations are the shadows.
Steven Pinker
#23. Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.
David Levithan
#24. I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.
Beth Revis
#25. She wonders how people can live this kind of life - trapped inside a house with windows everywhere showing you where else you could be.
Alden Bell
#26. The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped inside its little book.
Simon Schama
#27. He considered earthquakes and decided they were the result of air trapped inside the earth that had sought a way out, a form of geological flatulence.
Alain De Botton
#28. Olive trees are intimate creatures, eloquent in their twistedness. It's easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#29. All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.
Sarah Jio
#30. He wanted to shout, telling her to stop. He wanted to tell her that he could stay, that he wanted to stay, that if leaving meant losing her, then going home wasn't worth it. But the words stayed trapped inside him ...
Nicholas Sparks
#31. It was not so much that he was shut out, but that she was trapped inside.
Kristen Heitzmann
#32. Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.
Lauren DeStefano
#33. My sadness isn't a way I feel but a thing trapped inside the walls of my flesh, like a smog. It takes the sheen off everything. It rolls the world in soot. It saps the power from my limbs and presses my back into a stoop.
Sara Baume
#34. There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.
Henry Rollins
#35. I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.
Kim Novak
#36. Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois.
You don't get lost in the woods behind your house.
You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall.
Travis Thrasher
#37. They don't need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they're trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin
J.K. Rowling
#38. The thought of life without her makes me feel like I'm trapped inside a cave.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#39. Working at night helps people focus in on this crazy little bubble you've created, wherever you are filming. It doesn't matter where the location is, the world doesn't exist outside this bubble. And everyone is trapped inside.
Ray Stevenson
#40. Van Helsing more than sensed the coming alive of the undead creature trapped inside the icy coffin. He saw it now. Seeping from a bad seal between compartments, a wisp of fucking smoke.
Robert W. Walker
#41. The terror is trapped inside of him and paralyzes him. He closes his eyes again and tries to drown out the scream - but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing in his ears.
Suneeta Misra
#42. All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.
Homer
#43. We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.
Todd Tiahrt
#44. We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#45. Her heart became a bird, trapped inside the glass box of her chest, flapping violently into wall after invisible wall, crumpling into a heap of broken hollow-bones on the transparent floor.
K.I. Hope
#46. I wasn't merely remembering, it seemed to be trapped inside my eyelids.
Dodie Smith
#47. You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.
Bill Henson
#48. Hunger.
It's like an animal trapped inside you, Thomas thought. After three full days of not eating, it felt like a vicious, gnawing, dull-clawed animal was trying to burrow its way out of his stomach. He felt every second of every minute of every hour.
James Dashner
#49. Even in the darkness of the closed box she felt trapped inside, she could see light shining in through tiny holes on the lid.
They were like the stars beckoning her towards a place where all would be simple ... away from the shadows, away from the darkness.
Umair Naeem
#50. Harry could not stand this, he could not stand being Harry anymore. . . . He had never felt more trapped inside his own head and body, never wished so intensely that he could be somebody - anybody - else. . .
J.K. Rowling
#51. Nor should a man necessarily hold a door for a woman, unless it is a revolving door. It's not good manners to hold a revolving door, but it is lots of fun when other people are trapped inside.
P. J. O'Rourke
#52. I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.
Sue Monk Kidd
#53. He'd been forced to reply on his charm. Which, as Cam would have put it, was like a wet cat trapped inside a plastic bag.
Lia Davis
#54. So here I was in the middle of the AI world-not just hanging out there but totally dependent on the people if I expected to have a job once I graduated-and yet, day by day, AI started to seem insane. This is also what I do: I get myself trapped inside of things that seem insane.
Philip E. Agre
#55. I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.
Vanilla Ice
#56. Then there was someone else I met,
whose face and voice I can't forget,
and the memory of her
is like a jail I'm trapped inside,
or maybe she is something I just use
to hold my real life at a distance.
Tony Hoagland
#58. We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.
Derren Brown
#59. I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?
Jandy Nelson
#60. Moon couldn't think of anything reassuring to say. They were trapped inside a leviathan, standing in a tunnel gnawed out by giant parasites. Going blank with terror was a perfectly rational way to react, especially for a groundling.
Martha Wells
#61. You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.
Frederick Lenz
#62. Not being able to talk sucks. There's no doubt about that. There's a lot of times when I almost feel like I'm trapped inside of myself. Like if I don't talk or yell or scream or laugh I'm going to explode. A lot of the time it almost feels like I'm suffocating.
Keary Taylor
#63. Sometimes with a flutter of agitated worry that felt like a beetle was trapped inside my ribs. p. 90
Diane Ackerman
#64. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.
Chuck Palahniuk
#65. Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.
Lev Grossman
#66. I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
Tamsin Greig
#67. When someone is trapped in a burning building, you don't try to work out what caused the fire and then decide whether the people inside get your sympathy. When people are in danger of burning up, you rush to save them. Especially if you remember how much it hurts to be burned.
Christine Caine
#68. your huge blocks of industrial ice packed in fragrant sawdust, the huge blocks of man-sized ice with flaws way inside like trapped white faces, white flames of internal cracks.
David Foster Wallace
#69. Sometimes Scarlett felt all of Trisda was under a dome, a large piece of glass that trapped everyone inside while her father looked down, moving - or removing - people if they weren't in the right places.
Stephanie Garber
#70. Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out
R.A. Lafferty
#71. Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.
Jayme K.
#72. How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.
Chuck Palahniuk
#73. I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.
Cornell Woolrich
#74. The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#75. Maybe she'd been screaming for a long time.
Maybe the sound was imprisoned inside this cocoon, trapped like she was. Maybe no one would ever hear her. Maybe she would scream until her throat bled and no one would ever know.
Marissa Meyer
#76. I was upset, sad, angry - something! I needed to do something! I needed to feel myself, understand myself and this horrible world we are all trapped in, where bugs and tumors and viruses worm their way into our brains and lay their putrid eggs that hatch and eat us alive from the inside out.
Garth Stein
#77. I dun knw things get trapped
In my mind
Then itss smethin
That I wanna find
I dun get the answer
Is there anyone listenin to me
No one there to see
To see the pain and the agony
Inside ur beautiful heart
To see that u kissed the pain
And kicked everythin apart
B. Bhardwaz
#78. The sun's bright. Like really fucking bright. Maybe it's because I've been trapped indoors for the last few weeks. Or maybe it's because I feel so dark inside.
Jessica Sorensen
#79. But very quickly I discovered that passing didn't just mean slipping below the surface, it meant being buried alive. I was still me on the inside, trapped in there with all my wounds and fears. But I was no longer me on the outside.
Leslie Feinberg
#80. Dorian looked down at the boy and felt the trapped leopard inside him rise in a protective crouch. Then I guess he stays with us. Welcome to DarkRiver, Keenan Aleine.
Nalini Singh
#81. I became aware of a voice inside my head. [ ... ] It was only later that I realized that this voice was my own thinking, that this moment of anguish was my first inkling that I was a ceaseless monologue trapped within myself.
Yann Martel
#82. He was bound inside this body, trapped, an airborne being caged. In
Taiye Selasi
