Caged Quotes - page 2

I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do. (Jim Carrey)
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy. View quote
Björk
A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep! Like an eagle caged I pine On this dull unchanging shore: Oh give me the flashing brine, The spray and the tempest's roar! View quote
Epes Sargent
In his fancy, office was poison; it killed - body and soul - physically and socially. Office was more poisonous than priestcraft or pedagogy in proportion as it held more power; but the poison he complained of was not ambition; he shared none of Cardinal Wolsey's belated penitence for that healthy stimulant, as he had shared none of the fruits; his poison was that of the will - the distortion of sight - the warping of mind - the degradation of tissue - the coarsening of taste - the narrowing of sympathy to the emotions of a caged rat. View quote
Henry Adams
In modern times, the immortal longings of the mystics are expressed in a cult of incessant activity. Infinite progress . . . infinite tedium. What could be more dreary than the perfection of mankind? The idea of progress is only the longing for immortality given a techno-futurist twist. Sanity is not found here, nor in the moth-eaten eternities of the mystics. Other animals do not pine for a deathless life. They are already in it. Even a caged tiger passes its life half out of time. Humans cannot enter that never-ending moment. They can find a respite from time when - like Odysseus, who refused Calypso's offer of everlasting life on an enchanted island so he could return to his beloved home - they no longer dream of immortality. View quote
John N. Gray
Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness. The bird has wings, and wings were made to cleave the air, and soar in freedom in the sun. The soul is immortal - it cannot feed upon husks. View quote
Randolph Sinks Foster
I know what the caged bird feels, alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; When the wind blows soft through the springing grass, And the river floats like a stream of glass; When the first bird sings and the first bud opes, And the faint perfume from its chalice steals- I know what the caged bird feels! I know why the caged bird beats his wing Till its blood is red on the cruel bars; For he must fly back to his perch and cling When he fain would be on the bough a-swing; And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars And they pulse again with a keener sting- I know why he beats his wing! I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and he would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings! View quote
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Is it one wid this you'd be, Yank - black smoke from the funnels smudging the sea, smudging the decks - the bloody engines pounding and throbbing and shaking - wid divil a sight of sun or a breath of clean air - choking our lungs wid coal dust - breaking our backs and hearts in the hell of the stokehole - feeding the bloody furnace - feeding our lives along wid the coal, I'm thinking - caged in by steel from a sight of the sky like bloody apes in the Zoo! View quote
Eugene O'Neill
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are. View quote
Katherine Applegate
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying. View quote
Isobelle Carmody
It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person. (Jean Harris)
The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash. View quote
James Chiles
I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever. View quote
Jack Carroll
Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn't even be rude to evil vampires who'd caged her boyfriend and were preparing to roast him alive. View quote
Rachel Caine
When I have a girlfriend, I feel caged in, I don't know why. View quote
Scott Baio
The dictator is the one animal who needs to be caged. View quote
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for. View quote
Tennessee Williams
I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in. View quote
Angelina Jolie
I felt caged by my childhood. View quote
Christina Aguilera
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars. View quote
Johnny Cash
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. (Nadine Gordimer)
What is this poetry ? A mortal mind Made visible;a caged bird? Nay more:it is a spiritleft behind Nailed by the piercing word. View quote
William Soutar
They remind us that he is a great man, and that the largest of us are very small ones. Let this be granted. But "a living dog is better than a dead lion." Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion, for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. View quote
Abraham Lincoln