Bird Cage Quotes

My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate. — Sri Chinmoy

The only thing crueler than a cage so
small that a bird can't fly is a cage so
large that a bird thinks it can fly. — Caroline Kepnes

He said what nobody understood was, she always felt like a bird in a cage--she wanted to be without roots. — Kate Alcott

Having dreams without enthusiasm is like a bird living in a cage. — Debasish Mridha

Souls shriveled by public sins, each holding office like a bird in its cage — Giorgos Seferis

Resentment is a cage, talent is a captured bird. — Elif Shafak

To us, she was like a rare bird that had escaped its cage and was roaming through a courtyard of common chickens. — Lisa See

I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage! — William Carlos Williams

If a bird is used to flying and you put in a a cage, it won't be a happy bird; It wants to fly; that's its nature. Your nature is infinite awareness. — Frederick Lenz

A bird in a cage is not half a bird. — Henry Ward Beecher

She deserved it, the snake. After keeping my little golden bird locked up in her cage for so long. — Marissa Meyer

The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage. — Will Cuppy

The cage door opened and the cuckoo bird fell, fell, fell, until finally her stunted wings opened, and she found that she could fly. — Kate Morton

Our bird when he found the cage open would not fly — Bram Stoker

The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage. — Victor Hugo

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage. — Victor Hugo

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings. — Elton John

When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage. — Rumi

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. — Kahlil Gibran

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts. — Klaus Kinski

Bird cage is nice only when it is empty! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The poor child felt like a little bird that is placed in a glittering cage. — Johanna Spyri

Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below — Jacob Grimm

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape. — Michel De Montaigne

Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild. — William Butler Yeats

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught. — Rachel Field

When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead! — Winston Churchill

I am the bird of the spiritual Garden,
not of this world of dust; for a few days,
they have a cage of my body made. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll

True love does not put a person in a cage like a bird. It gives true freedom to soar. — Debasish Mridha

I look through the cage ... an absolute beauty of yours ... — Ankur Kumar Shah

He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate.
Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent. — Alice Hoffman

He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly. — Colleen McCullough

Do you want to be kept in a little cage? No! Because it is a horror! But then why do you keep a little bird in a cage? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My heart is flailing, thumping in my chest like a bird caught in a cage, wanting to be wild again. — Sona Charaipotra

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free ... and humans will see ... — K. Hari Kumar

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. — Khalil Gibran

Once written, a classic text is like a bird released from its cage. It develops a life of its own. Its "meaning" is not locked in. — Harvey Cox

Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much. — Priscilla Welch

I am a cage, in search of a bird. — Franz Kafka

You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird. — Tori Amos

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage. — Arthur J. Lamb

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

More than the aspirations of an innocuous bird inside a cage, its the story of the cage that fascinates. — Ashutosh Gupta

A forest bird never wants a cage. — Henrik Ibsen

Happiness is like a bird. If it chooses
to sit on your roof, you cannot capture it and put it in a cage. — Farin Powell

I'm a cage, in search of a bird. — Franz Kafka

And I wake, in the cage of my bones,
on the same cold ground. — John Burnside

A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that. — Paulo Coelho

The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage. — Rumi

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. — Germaine Greer

Our cage
We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,
And sing our bondage freely. — William Shakespeare

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person. — Sharon Creech

He who frees a bird from its cage is surely a holy person! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? — William Blake

While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away. — Rumi

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. — Marilyn Monroe

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame — Aimee Mann

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut? — Olive Schreiner

A loan is the scissors of friendship.
A man's own tongue may cut his throat.
The cage has no value without the bird. — Idries Shah

The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks. — Thomas Beecham