“A forest bird never wants a cage.”
Hilda, Act III
The Master Builder (1892)
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Henrik Ibsen 69
Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet 1828–1906Related quotes
Act I, scene ii. Compare: "To public feasts, where meet a public rout,— Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out", John Davies, Contention betwixt a Wife, etc.
The White Devil (1612)

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variant: A cage went in search of a bird.
“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.”
Quoted in Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations (1992), p. 22

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
As quoted in Investing with Impact: Why Finance is a Force for Good (2016) by Jeremy Balkin