I could have completely lost my mind or became a junkie or abandoned all sense and judgment and committed some rash, stupid act that would have sent me right back into the cage. Instead, I chose to be happy - but not so much for the sake of happiness as for spite.
When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?
I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can feel the heavy thump, thump, thump of its feverish body inside and I open my mouth, not to speak, but to let the bird out so I can breathe.
People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
I was part of the sort of avant guard tradition of John Cage and music concrete and pushing back the boundaries of avant garde classic pop rhythms. I think everyone brings something completely different to it.
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.
An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fightsteel cage matches. They are a ruthless tag team.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
The only good cage is an empty cage.
The heart of a woman falls back with the night, And enters some alien cage in its plight, And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.
A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said.
Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?