Quotes about Cage

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought, and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul

Not one was willing to break out of that velvet cage of comfort and convenience to begin a radical lifestyle lived from an inner reality

They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believed they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared.

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa. Half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me.

A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out.

Such is the uncaged progress of the bear. The world has room to make a bear feel free; The universe seems cramped to you and me. Man acts more like the poor bear in a cage, That all day fights a nervous inward rage, His mood rejecting all his mind suggests. He paces back and forth and never rests The toenail click and shuffle of his feet, The telescope at one end of his beat, And at the other end the microscope, Two instruments of nearly equal hope, And in conjunction giving quite a spread.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.