Trapped Quotes - Page 2

• There's a problem which is when you're trapped in your own identity and everything is really you, then you feel less freedom to sort of explore who you want to be. So I think it's kind of something we're stuck with as long as humans are the way we are.

  Tim Wu

  Thinking, Long, Identity

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Listen as the wind blows
  From across the great divide
  Voices trapped in yearning
  Memories trapped in time

  Sarah McLachlan

  Memories, Blow, Wind

  Song: Possession

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• My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

  Arthur Golden

  Mother, Water, Stones

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• It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning philosophical - that maybe they HAD gotten in that car. All three of them. And what they now thought of as their life was just a dream state. That all three of them were, in reality, still eleven-year-old boys trapped in some cellar, imagining what they'd become if they ever escaped and grew up.

  Dennis Lehane

  Dream, Philosophical, Boys

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• There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.

  Michelle Alexander

  Bird, Wire, Bars

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Understanding, Mind, Mythology

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.68, Anchor

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• If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Body

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• Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Spring, Cutting

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• The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mother, Mom And Daughter, Being A Mom

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• 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

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Heart, Games

  Bob Dylan (2006). “Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte”, p.1098, Feltrinelli Editore

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• It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.

  Dolly Parton

  Real, Different, Looks

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• We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.

  Mason Cooley

  Illness, Refuge

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• It is not easy being trapped in a school that is caught between cornfields and cows.

  Tom Upton

  School, Cows, Easy

  Tom Upton (2016). “Fading Away”, p.33, Tom Upton

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• One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

  Alec Wilkinson

  Inspirational, Funny, Ice

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• All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Strong, Healing, Soul

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• Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people who feared that the strange technologies I was working on, like virtual reality, might unleash the demons of human nature. For instance, would people become addicted to virtual reality as if it were a drug? Would they become trapped in it, unable to escape back to the physical world where the rest of us live? Some of the questions were silly, and others were prescient.

  Jaron Lanier

  Silly, Technology, Reality

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• It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

  William J. Clinton

  Self, People, Doubt

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

  Thomas Nagel

  Determined, Psychological, Feels

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• You cant be trapped by other people you can only be trapped by your fear, defy and win!

  Michael Grant

  Winning, People, Cant

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

  Aeschylus

  Literature, Want, Ruins

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Spirituality, Tantra

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• Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

  Cullen Hightower

  Moving Forward, Thinking, Futility Of Life

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• James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

  James A. Baldwin

  People, History, May

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• Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

  Mira Bartok

  Memories, Wings, Brain

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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