John Fowles Quotes

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

There's no way out of here.

You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.

I am a poem. There is no way out.

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Trapped' is unique because it focuses on one character who is stuck in an apartment.

Welcome to Morganville.You'll never want to leave.And even if you do...well, you can't. Sorry about that.

I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!

A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.

And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

He’s being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven,” Thomas said. “I figured he couldn’t jigger his way out of a bunch of steel, and it would give him something to think about before we start asking questions.” “That’s an awful thing to do to one of the Little Folk, man,” I said. “I’m planning to start making a pie in front of him.” “Nice.” “Thank you.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.