Jeaniene Frost
Author
"It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him."
Captives quotes
Captives
23 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable."
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive."
Carl Sandburg
Poet, Biographer
"My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free."
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"Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive."
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"What good's a captive without her captor?"
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"Dreams can never be made captive."
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"Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say"
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