46 Quotes About Captive

If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell.

Sometimes I hate him. When he does the dishes, he shakes off each one before setting it in the drying rack. Water flies everywhere. A couple of drops always hit me in the face. I have to leave the room to avoid smashing a plate against his head.

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium

Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man’s prayers matched by his deeds.

Every wall that I build to lock the world out is yet another wall that I’ve built that locks me in. And in the most heinous kind of imprisonment imaginable, I find that I have become both warden and inmate.

Anyway, it's easy to be what people want: give them something to stare at, nod and smile, tell them they're gorgeous.

She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she answered her captors' questions? What did she have to lose beyond misery, isolation, and silence? Yet she held out.

She had simply shed the mantle of slavery as easily as she had worn it, making him realize that she had never really worn it at all.

But he would give the Spainish no satisfaction. When they offered him a drink, he smashed the glass and ate the shards, preferring his own English blood to their sweet wine. He died soon after.