Trapped like a trap in a trap
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.
I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.
I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.
When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever.
I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.
I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.
I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes. . . I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.
We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.
I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped!. . . but enjoying the music".
We usually look outside ourselves for heroes and teachers. It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the role model they seek. The wholeness they are looking for may be trapped within themselves by beliefs, attitudes, and self-doubt. But our wholeness exists in us now. Trapped though it may be, it can be called upon for guidance, direction, and most fundamentally, comfort. It can be remembered. Eventually we may come to live by it.
I have been working. I've been blessed to have shared a movie in the north of Chile called 'The 33,' with Gabriel Byrne and Juliette Binoche and Antonio Banderas, which is the beautiful story of the miners (trapped underground for 69 days in 2010). And then, this incredible, epic story came my way.
A rose trapped inside a fist.
being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you’re trapped.
You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.