Michael Moorcock Quotes

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

My cage has many rooms.

There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

People are locked up in all sorts of ways.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

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

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

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.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

To arrive is to be in prison.

A caged canary is safe but not free.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

One good thing about being locked in a cage: No responsibility!

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.