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Quotes About Chains

losers so dumb that they mistook wrapping themselves in the chains of addiction as an act of rebellion.
~ Stephen King
To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.
~ Octavio Paz
Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.
~ S. N. Goenka
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
~ William Blake
Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.
~ Hafez
Your freedom it says. What is that? Some kind of illusory concept where the people in charge let you have comfortable distractions. Enough THINGS so that you don't see your chains. I respect your work too much to let you endure that kind of self-deception.
~ Jonathan Hickman
The one who first heard Zebak bells Must see the truth the mirror tells. The hand must bleed to reach the end, One finger stands the others bend. With chains and sorrow you must pay For other hands to guide your way.
~ Emily Rodda
So, very soon our captives will meet their small countrywoman again. How grateful they must be to have a pleasant ride, with us to guide their way. Perhaps they feel that chains and sorrow are not too high a price to pay. What say you, Zanel?
~ Emily Rodda
Who among us is free? Only those who see their chains know what freedom means.-pg. 123 Welland Hevington, A Memoir "The Demon's Daughter
~ Emma Holly
Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.
~ Epictetus
She had no fear of dogs. It was man she wished to leave behind, and her senses told her they were not near. But now she feared him more than ever. Not only could his hands chain and pen one up, but he could make the terrifying thunder noises that hurt the ears and that somehow reached out like a long, invisible whip and brought pain such as that which now tore at her.
~ Eric Knight
Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refrigerator. They are so strong, I can't break them.
~ George Foreman
I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
~ Yahoo Serious
I pretty much just focus on making the records - unless I'm self-releasing them; then I do my own thing. But at some point, you have to stop worrying about chains of distribution, or it takes out of your time to write.
~ John Darnielle
What was arousing, to me, for three decades, was faithfulness, the chains of orgasms extreme beyond violent in safety.
~ Sharon Olds
But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
You would end up unhappy and bound for life to your unhappiness.
~ Mary Balogh
There are moments that cry out to be fulfilled. Like, telling someone you love them. Or giving your money away, all of it. Your heart is beating, isn't it? You're not in chains, are you? There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.
~ Mary Oliver
For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains and look around me with a free and lofty spirit
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
cadenassée. Les ceps nus, noirs, tordus, ressemblent
~ Maud Tabachnik
Life...had been defined as motion; man's life was purposeful motion; what was the state of a being to whom purpose and motion were denied, a being held in chains but left to breathe and to see all the magnificence of the possibilities he could have reached, left to scream "Why?" and to be shown the muzzle of a gun as sole explanation?
~ Ayn Rand
Life, he thought, has been defined as motion; man's life was purposeful motion; what was the state of a being to whom purpose and motion were denied, a being held in chains but left to breathe and to see all the magnificence of the possibilities he could have reached, left to scream Why? and to be shown the muzzle of a gun as sole explanation? He shrugged, walking one; he did not care even to find an answer.
~ Ayn Rand
Life, he thought, had been defined as motion; man's life was purposeful motion; what was the state of a being to whom purpose and motion were denied, a being held in chains but left to breathe and to see all the magnificence of the possibilities he could have reached, left to scream Why? and to be shown the muzzle of a gun as sole explanation? He shrugged, walking one; he did not care even to find an answer.
~ Ayn Rand