Cage Metaphor Quotes

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

The pedestal that women were placed upon often turned out to be a cage.

It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

I don't like being locked in a cage on the creative scale. I need an outlet.

For many, whether they go to prison or not is far less about the choices they make and far more about what kind of cage they're born into.