Famous quotes containing the words cave and/or hostage:
“The Cave of Jeremiah is in this part. In its lamentable recesses he composed his lamentable Lamentations.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary.... He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)