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Cage Quotes

Confinement, comfort, and control

This Cage quotes collection reflects on the psychology of confinement, including the strange comfort some find yearning for the cage they were raised in. Related: Captivity quotes.

'Luke Cage' is a gift. There's so many different ways you can look at it.

Quotes by Adrian Younge

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

Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I was in Australia in 1983 and did a stunt in a lion's cage.

Quotes by Tiny Tim

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Quotes by Timothy Spall

Caged Quotes

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

Quotes by Tim Jackson

I'll be playing a priest in 'Chavez Cage Of Glory,' which is a fight movie.

Quotes by Steven Bauer

I've seen Jay-Z and Kanye West. I've seen actors like Tom Hanks and Nicholas Cage.

Quotes by Spencer Paysinger

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

Quotes by Sol LeWitt

I spent many hours in the batting cage. I remember many days when my hands were pretty cut up and bleeding.

Quotes by Scott Pruitt

Captive Quotes

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

Quotes by Sarah Ferguson

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

Quotes by Robert Fulghum

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Quotes by Richard Lovelace

I have a cage at home, I have a cage at all the gyms I train.

Quotes by Nick Diaz

Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity.

Quotes by Marino Marini

Captivity Quotes

Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.

Quotes by Margaret Truman

When I was 15 years old, I watched Royce Gracie in the cage, and I thought I'd like to do the same thing.

Quotes by Lyoto Machida

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

Quotes by Lisa Marie Presley

We used to have endless discussions with journalists about that: 'Why are you calling it noise? It's not noise, it's music,' and make references to everybody from John Cage to whoever.

Quotes by Lee Ranaldo

I barely leave my cage, my house.

Quotes by Kim Coates

Prison Quotes

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the central idea in the Cage quotes?
A recurring idea is that something raised in confinement can end up yearning for that same cage, exploring the psychology of captivity.
Do any quotes describe literal training cages?
Yes, one mentions having a cage both at home and at every gym used for training.
Is there a quote about a dangerous animal encounter?
One recalls performing a stunt inside an actual lion enclosure during a trip down under in the early 1980s.
How is imagination connected to the idea of a cage?
One compares imagination to a beast that needs to be contained within a cage rather than left completely unchecked.
Where can I read more about freedom and confinement?
Browse the Captivity collection for related themes.

Others describe literal training cages at home and in gyms, plus a memorable stunt performed inside an actual lion enclosure. See also Prison and Caged quotes.