Captivity Quotes
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Captivity Quotes & Sayings
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![Captivity Quotes By George Orwell: [T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/captivity-quotes-by-george-orwell-144144.jpg "Captivity Quotes By George Orwell: [T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not")
He gives Himself as prize and reward: He is the refreshment of holy soul, the ransom of those in captivity.
— Bernard Of Clairvaux
Freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.
— Gary Shteyngart
There is not an animal on this earth that if given the choice between freedom or captivity, would not choose to be free.
— Patricia Engel
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love;The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
Sink in the soft captivity together. — Joseph Addison
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
— Miguel De Cervantes
The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.
— Radhanath Swami
When life is a cell, there is nothing more liberating than captivity.
— Joe Abercrombie
People who blame are always looking to "get out" of something, but like quicksand, the more they struggle the more they are captive.
— Bryant McGill
We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!
— Louie Giglio
Patience is a rare plant to cultivate in captivity.
— Sandra Leigh Price
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
— K.A. Applegate
I can't mate in captivity.
— Gloria Steinem
To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment.
— Tracey Bond
Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life
— Benjamin Disraeli
Liberate yourself from any mental captivity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God would rather have His people living in shameful captivity in a pagan land than living like pagans in the Holy Land and disgracing His name.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
The first type of captivity consists in man's dependence on creatures, animate or inanimate, when he loves them without reference to God.
— Johannes Tauler
Prisoner of Her Own Captivity
— Brandalynn Davis
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Liv sagged against the wall. Their son was kidnapped and trained as a sex slave. Jesus, they were in serious fucking denial about his captivity.
— Pepper Winters
The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
— Iris Murdoch
Bitterness is captivity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The rule of captivity is to bend, not break.
— Nathaniel Fick
Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity. — William Shakespeare
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
— Nadine Gordimer
The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
— Willa Cather
On entering a place where animals are bred, my first thoughts are always about enslavement. Force. Captivity.
— Alice Walker
I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.
— Marion Cotillard
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
— William Samuel Johnson
I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.
— Hans Frank
Captivity is always captivity, no matter how gentle the jailer.
— John Hargrove
We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.
— Paulo Coelho
Once again Toll-by-Night had burst out of its captivity, like a monstrous jack from an innocent-looking box. And this time Mosca was a part of it.
— Frances Hardinge
We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.
— Louie Giglio
I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.
— Nancy E. Turner
Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.
— Hugh MacLennan
Please wake me when I'm freeI cannot bear captivity
4 I would rather be stricken blind
Than 2 live without expression of mind — Tupac Shakur
Silence, is the mother of prayer, a return from the captivity of sin, unconscious success in virtue, a continuous ascension to heaven.
— St. John Climacus
If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity ... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.
— Fred Astaire
Stability and order have always been paid for with captivity and blood. (76)
— Mary Doria Russell
That was what made fighting so easy - you could always choose death rather than captivity.
— Cornelia Funke
Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free.
— Melanie Muller
In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
— Michel De Montaigne
Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity
— Martin Luther
Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.
— Tippi Hedren
The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.
— Vasily Grossman
The captivity of Carswell Thorne had gotten off to a rocky start, what with the catastrophic soap rebellion and all.
— Marissa Meyer
After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.
— Amanda Lindhout
He didn't like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.
— Rick Yancey
Everyone has a captivity narrative; today we call it memoir.
— Stacy Schiff
We have to bring in captivity every high thing in people's mind.
— Sunday Adelaja
A life lived without borders is a life lived in captivity
— Todd Stocker
What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.
— Louise Penny
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.
— Christopher Walken
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
— Elie Wiesel
The years in captivity fuels character development
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
— Abraham Lincoln
We can easily be led into captivity by seeking other answers to needs and desires that only God can meet.
— Beth Moore
A butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.
— Marlene Van Niekerk
I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
— K.A. Applegate
