12 Quotes Tagged: trapped

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You have paid the cover charge thousands of times over
with your lives
and now you are afraid

you can never get out.

You can't magic yourself out of the situation, you've got to live it as decently and as grimly as you can.

Oh my life is so awful, it's just so awful to be me, you don't know what it's like waking every morning and finding the whole horror of being yourself still there.

He can do anything he likes and I'm so lonely, oh so lonely — And I put up with it because there was nothing else to do —

Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you'll be set free forever.

AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate!

CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.

Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be defiled over and over again.

When you are bored, restless, longing for something more, unfulfilled, feeling like you've settled, haunted by the sense of being trapped in your own life, these are the deep waters of your soul speaking to you, telling you something is wrong, something is missing, something needs to change.

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 to draw these pictures, to make art pictures like the kinds of pictures in serious motherfucking paintings that you see in museums and shit. So the scientist keeps showing the apes these paintings and giving them charcoal pencils to draw with and then one day one of the apes finally draws something but it’s not the art pictures that it draws. What it draws is the bars of its own motherfucking cage. Its own motherfucking cage! Man, that's the truth, ain't it?

Fireflies are stars that could not journey to the sky.

Was this strange mode of life to go on and on?

Iris Murdoch, Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)

the-green-knight on-and-on life trapped unending

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12 Quotes Tagged: trapped

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