Caged Quotes

“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties or whenever the motherfuck it was and he was trying to get apes to draw these pictures, to make art pictures like the kinds of pictures in serious motherfucking paintings that you see in museums and shit. So the scientist keeps showing the apes these paintings and giving them charcoal pencils to draw with and then one day one of the apes finally draws something but it’s not the art pictures that it draws. What it draws is the bars of its own motherfucking cage. Its own motherfucking cage! Man, that's the truth, ain't it?”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“I slept under the moonlight and set my soul free, caged within jars like fireflies".”
― Prajakta Mhadnak

“That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.”
― Isobelle Carmody, Greylands

“When I was a little girl, I used to try and bring sunshine to my mother. I felt so bad that she had never really seen or felt it. So I would try and catch it in jars. When that failed, I captured jars and jars of lightening bugs and told her that if we could catch enough of them, then it would look like the sun. She’d laugh, hug me, and then set them free and tell me that nothing should have to live its life in a cage. (Cassandra)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“No free man needs a God; but was I free?
How fully I felt nature glued to me
And how my childish palate loved the taste
Half-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!

My picture book was at an early age
The painted parchment papering our cage:
Mauve rings around the moon; blood-orange sun;
Twinned Iris; and that rare phenomenon
The iridule - when, beautiful and strange,
In a bright sky above a mountain range
One opal cloudlet in an oval form
Reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm
Which in a distant valley has been staged -
For we are most artistically caged.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Key the mind, and set the soul free.”
― Anthony Liccione

“One day I asked a wingless bird what will she do now. She replied, “If I can’t fly than I shall run. If I can’t run I shall walk. If I can’t walk I shall crawl. But I will never be stuck in cage.”
― Joyce Guo

“You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

“She was attempting to flirt with him, in hopes he’d put in a good word for her with Captain Alvarez. Lost cause, Cadence, I thought. Flirting with a guy who has a boyfriend was unlikely to yield positive results.”
― Sophie Davis, Caged

“You must not let me out,' it warned him gently, as it saw his eyes rest on the lock.
'If you release me now that I know my nature, I could not help but unmake the enchantment of the mirrors. You see, they are tame now and they show only what people want and need to see in them. The wildness of them is bound up in my form, though I did not know it for a long time. If I were uncaged, I could not help but tear at the enchantment until I was unnamed. Then I would fly into all of the mirrors and windows and into shining footpaths after rain. The mirrors would become wild and they would be absolutely, utterly truthful. Everything would be seen for what it truly was. My laughter would greet every lie and every pretense. It would rumble like a volcano under the smooth surface of everything. You can imagine the chaos it would cause here, for those who dwell in the greylands do so because the mirrors are tamed. If I were free, people would come to be afraid of them. They would cease to believe in their reflections and eventually they would no longer believe in themselves. No, laughter must remain caged here.”
― Isobelle Carmody, Greylands

“Better make sure you’re not in my way when I go down.” My eyebrow lifted as I dipped my head to his level. “You wouldn’t want to get squashed.”
― J.A. Belfield, Caged

“Sure, swing your oscillating dick over there, and see how long you last before she runs screaming for the authorities.”
― J.A. Belfield, Caged

“No poem of mine will, be as beautiful as the one; I create on your lips.”
― Seekerohan, Caged: The Price of Pride

“You can take a cub from the savannah as they have, and raise it like a pet if you like. In a cage, as some do, or running free like Paddy. You can feed it fresh meat so it never learns to hunt and brush its coat so it carries a human smell wherever it goes—but know that what you’ve done is twist something natural into something else. And you can never trust on unnatural thing. - Charles Clutterbuck”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

“beneath the caged flutter of hope
fear blooms in the liver as a spear
where memory burns its fever
across the spoke of my body”
― stephanie roberts, rushes from the river disappointment (Volume 53)

“Not everyone who's in love wants to set it free. The urge to feel attached~not caged. Having a home in a heart~not in chains of obligations.”
― Nitya Prakash

“All the time he made her laugh, her words remained caged within her parted lips.

She would sigh, leave and chant the "I love you" but never before him.”
― Nitya Prakash

“The mind is a borderless cage
hoarding dreams
and nightmares.”
― Nanette L. Avery

“If it's not love, do not expect me to be caged in it for long.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Being caged is different from being imprisoned. There are being caged but don't feel imprisoned at all. And there are being imprisoned that are not litterally caged.”
― Krizha Mae G. Abia

“The aged sometimes feel enraged because of being caged in a stage of life ravaged by discomforts, their often wild talk is not a gauge of their appreciation.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“I felt like a blind, caged bird who was told it could fly like the other birds, but didn’t know it was trapped in a cage.”
― K. Weikel, Sameness

“It seems to me that this honour that has been bestowed upon you comes with very few benefits. You're not allowed to show your face or travel anywhere outside the castle grounds. You didn't even seem all that surprised when the Priestess moved to strike you. That leads me to believe it's something fairly common,' he said, his brows dark slashes above his eyes. 'You are not allowed to speak to most, and you are not to be spoken to. You're caged in your room most of the day, your freedom restricted. All the rights others have are privileges for you, rewards that seems impossible for you to earn.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“The rational world view that is maintained by the waking conscious self is a perfect cage; it limits our potential so much that even the contemplation of the possibility of another greater reality is interpreted as insanity, guaranteeing that few will ever even suspect the marvels hidden in the depths of the Second World. But that is the price we all are willing to pay I suppose, to also protect the cozy sensible human world from the titans beyond the gate.”
― John Kreiter, The Way of the Projectionist: Alchemy’s Secret Formula to Altered States and Breaking the Prison of the Flesh

“Just like you need to understand that there is no way out of this. You belong to me.'

My heart turned over slowly. 'Don't you mean I belong to the Dark One?'

'I meant what I said, Princess.'

'I don't belong to anyone.'

'If you believe that, then you are a fool,' he taunted, pressing his head to mine before I could lash out. 'Or you're lying to yourself. You belonged to the Ascended. You know that. It's one of the things you hated. They kept you in a cage.'

I never should've said anything to him. 'At least that cage was more comfortable than this one.'

'True,' he murmured, and a heartbeat passed. 'But you've never been free.'

'True or not.' And it was painfully true. 'That doesn't mean I'll stop fighting you,' I warned. 'I won't submit.'

'I know.' There was an odd tone to his voice, one that sounded like... admiration. But that didn't make sense.

'You're still a monster,' I told him.

'I am, but I wasn't born that way. I was made this way.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Freedom is the cage, and the cage is never freedom.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The dragon in a puddle is the sport of shrimps,
The phoenix in a cage is mocked of small birds.”
― Luo Guanzhong, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

“The dragon in a puddle is the sport of shrimps,
The phoenix in a cage is mocked of small birds.”
― Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms