emotional captivity Quotes

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

I will never be able to break the hold that America has on me.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.

Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.

But in my arms she was always Lolita.

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

Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.

All people are enslaved by something.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.

You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.

No love is foule, nor prison fair.

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery

Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.

We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.

You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there was the abject fear you would lose it. They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.

...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.