Trapped Quotes

I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.

You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.

Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love.

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man -- his mind and his psyche.

And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.

While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it.

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.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.

The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.

People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.

I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.

When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

Isn't my fur stole pitiful? How unsuccessful can a girl look? People think I'm wearing anchovies. The worst of it is, I trapped these under my own sink.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?

I don't like the trappings of stardom. I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana, because I'm told to. But I'm not trapped by it.

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.

It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.

Tantra won't work unless you've been trapped by spirituality. You have to be trapped by spirituality before you can be liberated from it.

A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.

If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed.