Cage Quotes

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. (Ray Bradbury)
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
A forest bird never wants a cage. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. View quote
Saskya Pandita
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. View quote
Germaine Greer
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. View quote
Axel Munthe
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. View quote
Elizabeth Wurtzel
The stage is like a cage of light. People are no longer afraid of you - they are the ones out there in the dark, watching. (Gérard Depardieu)
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. View quote
Angelina Jolie
Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
You can cage the singer but not the song. View quote
Harry Belafonte
A Robin Redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. View quote
William Blake
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves... View quote
Eve Ensler
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. View quote
Christopher Eccleston
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. View quote
Herbert Spencer
I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art. View quote
Jasper Johns
A bird in a cage is not half a bird. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too. (Dolph Lundgren)
John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you. View quote
Lester Bangs
There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there. View quote
A. A. Milne
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. View quote
Robert Browning
[Ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top. View quote
Robert Burton