Cages Quotes

“Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.”
― Dave McKean, Cages

“It's not even been a two-and-two-make five sort of day, it's more like a two-and-two-make...fish”
― Dave McKean, Cages

“Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.”
― Dave McKean, Cages

“And then a strange thing happened. Out of the diseased and deteriorated pool os tired thoughts came life. A simple and poisoned life, but a life nonetheless. Death cultivated tis bacteria with love and attention. It thived in its stifling, hopeless world, sapping Death os all its energy, but Death didn't notice, for all its attention went on the fracturing, multiplying, fragmentary creations inside it.
And when the virus had eaten every fleck of Death, it lived on in Death's dry sarcophagus.

Life implied by Death.”
― Dave McKean, Cages

“LEO: We're the last to leave.

BARKEEP: Ahuhrumhuh...koff, koff, humn...

LEO: Do you think he wants us to leave?

KAREN: No, no, probably just a bit of sarcasm gone down the wrong way.”
― Dave McKean, Cages

“I suppose cats have sayings like... "A dead mouse...has no entertainment value." How's that? Doesn't exactly trip off the tongue, does it? Okay, how about..."Red sky at night, time for a nap...red sky in the morning... time for a nap.”
― Dave McKean, Cages

“It a heasy t'ing to live for de lightnin' crack hillumination of possession.

It heasy to hide in de dark o' faith, pretendin' dat anyt'in' dat skitter an' scuttle in de night is jus' bad himagination.

It a heasy t'in' jus' to stay where you at. Grow roots. Vegetate. Be a potato.”
― Dave McKean, Cages

“I like the adventures because you know that when they say, "I've got a plan," and then they tell you, you know it's not going to work. And when they say, "I've got a plan," and they don't tell you, you know it is going to work, and it's all very exciting. I thought real life might be like that for a while, so I didn't tell anybody what I wanted to happen, but it didn't make any difference. I knew I was kiddin' meself.”
― Dave McKean, Cages

“I mean, it's not even been a two-and-two-make five sort of a day, it's more like a two-and-to-make... fish... or something... You know? Not even close to making sense.”
― Dave McKean, Cages

“Ma così è troppo facile. […] E’ facile restare dove siete. Fare radici. Vegetare, come una patata. E’ facile perché tutta l’avidità, l’ignoranza ed il diniego che ci sono al mondo sono vecchi quanto la prima bugia. E’ molto più difficile, dopo aver udito sfregare il fiammifero, dopo esservi riscaldati al cospetto dell’abbagliante fiamma, fare un passo avanti e illuminare un altro pezzettino dell’oscurità che vi circonda.

E’ difficile perché bisogna accettare che, a reggere la candela, ci si brucia la mano con la cera.

E, in fin dei conti, il dolore è parte del processo di rivelazione. E questa è la verità.

Amen.”
― Dave McKean, Cages

“Siamo tutti uccellini, ciascuno nella sua deliziosa gabbietta. A volte voliamo fino a un’altra gabbia un po’ più grande ma non abbiamo mai il coraggio di abbandonare completamente la nostra prigionia".”
― Dave McKean, Cages