I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else’s story.

The mirror’s light sparks in the eyes,And horrified, my lids drawn tight,I step back to that realm of nightWhere not a single exit lies…(Untitled: “I pass away this life of mine…”)

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked...

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us.” (p.162)

She felt trapped, but she didn’t have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it.

Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.’ McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. ‘But things have worked out for the best and now we all get to work together,’...

Do you feel trapped by the limitations in your life? Remember, you hold the key to the freedom you seek. You can unlock those limitations and set yourself free! There is always a way, there...

Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It’s the only way they feel safe. They also struggle with commitment—saying yes in a relationship means being trapped in yet another family...

The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.

Emptiness ate away at his inside, quickly replaced by a sadness that hurt his heart.

And then, with a shock like high-voltage coursing through me, the phone beside me started pealing thinly.I just stood there and stared at it, blood draining from my face. A call to a tollbooth? It...

Your partner may have injuries that you can’t repair. Your partner may be trapped in a dark room without windows. Your life narrative might bring him more relief than an opiate. Some people make better...

the Z-particle Pure energy—no mass at all. It may well be thesmallest building block in nature. Matter is nothing but trapped energy.

Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary.

The future is trapped in a cage opened only by the key of genius.

I don’t know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of...

Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before.

Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we...

The bastard was effectively stuck until he and Morfyd helped him. Fearghus smiled a little at his father’s suffering and the female who caused it.I do love that woman.

Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and painYou never know when it will end, don’t let a moment pass in vain…In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained,I just wanted freedom,...

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

It is as if we find ourselves on a ship in the middle of the ocean, with the captain making the point that we are free to leave.

Let me out Aphador.’ Penteluck said smoothly.’So you can attempt to run away, I think not.

Of all the ways I had imagined my death, getting beaten by my zombified mentor while trapped by a cannibalistic window handle wasn’t one of them

Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it.

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that’s a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.

Beware! Success is not what you think it is. It’s a trap.

He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety—and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked the latter, like leaves covering a snare. You didn’t notice the...

I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.

Don’t keep everything in your heart, one day they might trap there forever.

If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out.

If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one’s cell.

As eternal beings, we shouldn’t let our time spent trapped in the temporal prisons we call our bodies distract us from the fact that love is forever. Love now and love later, because the two...

Half of my life passed searching for the evil that makes me to do wrong things, until I found innocent evils trapped in me.

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

The result was I went nowhere.

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...

I’ve got a new relationship and I’m trapped in this old life.

Not a day has gone by, he said. Poor Jos. Days had gone by for me. It wasn’t that I had forgotten about him, I always knew that he was out there. It just stopped...

How can I escape a cage build by man?

I thought three minutes and twelve seconds would undo me. Now I’m trapped. I cannot survive in this elevator. Not with him, Not for much longer Another second.