Trapped Quotes

“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.”
― Rob Bell, How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

“Sometimes I felt I would die by wishing it when I went to sleep but I always woke up again and found I was still there. Every morning finding I'm still me, that's hell."

"Well, get out of hell then! The gate's open and I'm holding it!"

"I can't. I'm hell, myself.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

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

CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.”
― Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis

“Ask anyone who’s transgender. They’ll tell you they’re trapped in the wrong body. But me, I’m trapped in the wrong body because I’m trapped in a body. All bodies are the wrong body.”
― Tim Cannon

“Every wall that would entrap me has a door that would free me. And I languish because the fear of freedom often leaves me preferring the familiarity of the wall.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I was trapped. The day would be hell. I would suffer. I felt I might not survive. I needed a dark, quiet room, my videos, my bed, my pills. I hadn't been this far from home in many months. I was frightened.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Every day she felt like a monster walking among the innocent, felt as if she were trapped on the other side of a locked door”
― Peternelle van Arsdale, The Beast Is an Animal

“This man suffered too much. He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. When I had a chance I begged him to try and leave while there was time; I offered to go back with him. And he would say yes, and then he would remain...”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Was this strange mode of life to go on and on?”
― Iris Murdoch

“It’s more like ... she has grown too big and feels trapped in her own skin.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“She had been trapped into saying something she did not mean.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Sometimes I sit and stare out at the people walking by, wondering if they’ve felt as I’ve felt, trapped, alone, but guiltily content in the knowledge that I will never know another’s thoughts, and therefore can feel special due to my unique loneliness.”
― Moryah DeMott, Timeless: A Novel

“To be brutally truthful, the removal of your noodle from seeking other people’s futile approval to be you, is one of the most beautiful steps to flight, where wings flap to freedom from so many deadly traps.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“When you’re free from the shackles of solitude you never get the sense any mountain is too high to scale, or any horizon is too far to conquer.”
― Saim .A. Cheeda

“This is Hell, isn't it?"
"The closest I've ever come," Sam replied. "But don't give up yet. We might still make it out of here."
"That's the thing about Hell, once you're admitted, there is no escape.”
― Kayla Krantz, Blood Moon

“I lead a worthless life, he thought, I live in unreality and untruth. If only there could be total change, regeneration, escape. If only I could run and run and get back to the people, back to where real wholesome, ordinary life is being lived. I have given myself a mean role and cannot now stop enacting it. Oh if only I could get out! But even as he thought these familiar thoughts he knew: unreality is my reality, untruth is my truth, I am too old now and I have no other way.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“… I am me, but am not
me: I have spent my entire life & all of its suffering
both as spectator & subject. a woman trapped eternally as a
child waiting for the holy father. I look pretty but feel so
young, standing on the curb sucking on the lemon of the
sun.”
― Lisa Marie Basile, APOCRYPHAL

“Solve your problems or your problems solve you.”
― Mario Fingarov

“The ever-present tangle of lies tightened around her like a hunter's net. The more she pushed it away, the more it clung to her like sticky, spindly spiderwebs. But the truth had to remain hidden inside the godforsaken asylum and inside the one of silence that was Uma, Vijay, and her, and tragically enough, Vikram's mother.”
― Sonali Dev, The Bollywood Bride

“You might feel lost; you might feel nothing. You might feel trapped inside and locked outside of yourself at the same time.”
― Lydia Ruffles, The Taste of Blue Light

“She thought of how diligently she’d worked to free herself. Difficult because of the shock she was in, discovering she was trapped, captured most of all by possessions.”
― Alice Walker, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart

“I can't see how anything can ever happen to us — I mean, I feel as if, if we leave this place, we shall crumble to pieces.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“You've got to see me, Martin. I'm to blame. I've never been quite and entirely myself with you. The situation didn't let me be. The untruthfulness infected everything. I must break out a little? Do you see at all?”
― Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

“I click to buy it and I’m furious to discover that it’s not available in Ireland and they won’t post it from abroad and the only place that sells it is Harrods and it’s impossible for me to go to Harrods because it’s like being trapped in an Escher painting.”
― Marian Keyes, The Break

“I can't be free of this place, this haunted torture chamber echoing with thousands of years of blighted history. I can paint the walls, but I can't scrape the malice from the mortar. I can burn the curtains, but the blood splattered upon them only transitions to ash that stains the hearth.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Rain Falls on Malora

“I’ll be damned if I am getting trapped in another borough of this city!”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“I have complete faith that the government will find another way to screw us over and keep us trapped in the Infected Zone.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Leaving Wychwood gave him, as it did each time, the mingled anxiety and exhilaration of a rebirth. Womb-warm and sequestered, it was at once a sanctuary and a place of internment.”
― Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Peculiar Ground

“You feel trapped by your home?” Heatherstar tipped her head questioningly. “Are we trapped by the sky, or the earth?” she asked. “Are we trapped because we need prey to live? Or water to drink? Or air to breathe? We depend on all these things, but they don’t make us feel trapped.” Her eyes burned in the darkness. “Can you imagine what your life will be like without the protection of your Clan? You will have to hunt for yourself, heal yourself if you get hurt. There will be no one to share your victories. Or your defeats.”
Talltail’s ears twitched. “But I will be free.”
“You will be free to discover where your heart truly lies.”
― Erin Hunter, Tallstar's Revenge

“She pitied these women trapped in this semblance of happiness. She pitied their daughters being raised in this modernized cult of domesticity.”
― Wiss Auguste, The Illusions of Hope