Quotation Explorer - 'Trapped'

Trapped, like a trap in a trap. - Dorothy Parker
People used to recordings believed every piece of music had a definitive sound, its emotional context trapped in amber, a butterfly pinned to a board; beautiful, but dead. Live music was just that. Alive. - Tanya Huff
When you're in the city, trapped among the cubic structures, it's easy to forget that you're connected to the earth, because you're so separated from it by layers and layers of protection - the soles of your shoes, sandals, or slippers, sheets of asphalt, concrete, linoleum tiling. - Vicente García Groyon
Trapped in infernoIt blazed brighter than the sunHis desire for her - Archana Chaurasia Kapoor
I couldn't believe it had taken me all these years to see this side of him. He tucked himself inside a shell, shutting himself away from others here because the palace had trapped him. Behind the books and the snippy remarks there was a curious, engaging, and sometimes very charming person. - Keira Cass
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. - Elayne Boosler
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. - Kurt Vonnegut
Don't ever think you're alone here,We've just been trapped in different hells,And people aren't against you dear,They're just all for themselves. - Erin Hanson
If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked. - Gilles Deleuze
You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them. - Doug Dillon
I wanted a life full of intrigue and mystery, new environments, and new people...[a] temporary life with no fear of being trapped, - Addy Stevens
I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism - Amy Poehler
Don't be trapped in someone else's dream. - Bangtan Boys, N.O
the euro, it seems, is stuck in a political no man's land trapped between two opposing world views. And the battleground is not economics, but ethics. - Martin Cohen
Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it. - Ismat Ahmed Shaikh
I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul. - Shannon L. Alder
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure. - Parker J. Palmer
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things. - Erik Weihenmayer
Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our Self, by our own sense of who we are - The Truth
You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love. - -Ayushee Ghoshal, 4 AM Conversations with the Ghosts of Old Lovers
When you're trapped in a prison, and your heart is broken, and you can't move a finger because you don't know what to do, that's when you wake up. - Robin Gregory
I've been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I'm moving on - Rascal Flatts
We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull. - Cassandra Clare
Don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people's thinking. - Steve Jobs
Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there. - Jayme K.
Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. - Peter Sellers
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
The most important thing is to be as attentive and aware as possible, with our senses awakened and our ability to love utterly intact, so that we can exist right here and right now, and enjoy life and be creative, trapped in neither the past nor the future. - A. G. Roemmers
The mouse that fears the trap has already been trapped. - Marty Rubin
There is NO way you're living out your purpose if you're conforming to the rules. There is NO way you'll fulfill your destiny if you're trapped in the dogma of what other people think. - Catrice M. Jackson
I’m more than this kinesthetic intelligence of us trapped in this great chain of being that belongs to all of us. - Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression
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
Mr. Jennings is the one who trapped the fairies here to begin with. If they’re back and wandering around, if they’re loose, then, well, it’s not good. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
Unfortunately, the vast majority of mankind, prefers silence; forever trapped in the fine art of self poisoning. - Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Tongue and hand tied, I was equally cut off and trapped in my own silent dark tomb. - Jazz Feylynn
I'm trapped behind a wall of fear and fear itself. - Gabriella Jording
Half of my life passed searching for the evil that makes me to do wrong things, until I found innocent evils trapped in me. - M.F. Moonzajer
Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialist overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical. - John Marks Templeton
I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead - Jessica-Lynn Barbour
The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates the power of reality crafted by those who came before him. We are all trapped in circumstances into which we were born and choices that were made for us. - George Friedman
At times I was desperate and could find no solace anywhere. Nothing seemed to work, and the weight of being trapped in my own body made it difficult to lift even a hand off the sheets. - Lucy Grealy
My heart will never forget what it’s like to fade in and out of time, to never know if one year or a thousand have passed by, to torture yourself with the idea of your soul trapped behind ice for all eternity.I know what torture there is behind ice. - Beth Revis
i know this is love "" but how can be you so sure "" can't you see I'm alone, suffering nd it really hurts , I'm dying everyday a little bit , tell me any other disease where u face all this nd it has no cure buddy , I'm trapped - jagvir ji
I'm supposed to a man who never blows his composureA boy trapped in a war, forced to be a soliderThe weight of the world just put on top of my shouldersBut if there's one thing I know for sureIt's that my mind has had its exposureAnd my emotional turmoil has finally had its closure - Tommy Tran
What is past, but unalterable truth; life, just a pile of regrets; future, just a sum total of possibilities, and you...? just another trapped soul... - Gayathri Jayakumar
There are ghosts of yourself scattered everywhere,Whispers of a moment suspended in time,Where every life that you've brushed up againstNow lives with a piece of you trapped in their mind. - Erin Hanson
If women have failed to make universal art because we’re trapped within the personal, why not universalize the personal and make it the subject of our art? - Chris Kraus
You look about as trapped as a piglet at a baby back ribs cookoff. - Colleen Houck
Falling in love with humans is like walking into a pantry and realizing you're trapped in it without Whip Cream, and Cherries. - AainaA-Ridtz
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'. - Mary Daly
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