Encaged Quotes & Sayings

Ah," remarked one guest when the topic arose. "You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell the time. — Erin Morgenstern

Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness. — Rajneesh

I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I - well, I wouldn't say prayed over, but pleaded with, cajoled. A rhododendron that hadn't bloomed for six years was flatly told it would be removed the following year if there were no flowers. Need I say that it has bloomed profusely ever since? — Eleanor Perenyi

The encaged and suicidal have a really hard time imagining anyone caring passionately about anything. — David Foster Wallace

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before. — Lucretius

It's strange to remember how we used to think, as if everything were available to us, as if there were no contingencies, no boundaries; as if we were free to shape and reshape forever the everexpanding perimeters of our lives. — Margaret Atwood

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive. — Ian McEwan