Quotes About Freedom

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Don't be bitter; bitterness enslaves you, but God is prepared to remove your bitterness and replace it with His peace and joy.

Be crazy, be weird, don't be afraid of what anybody thinks!

Be yourself, be what you want to be not what others want you to be.

The Key to Happiness is to be FREE to BE what you want to BE!

Be what you want to be not what others want you to be.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

It is a pity to shut oneself indoors in the country,

Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.

that sense of relief which one has in reading Kant when, after the most rigorous demonstration of determinism, one finds that above the world of necessity there is the world of freedom.

I do not ask to live to a hundred," my aunt would say, for she preferred to have no definite limit fixed to the number of her days.

She would never think of shutting a door and, on the other hand, would no more hesitate to enter a room if the door stood open than would a dog or a cat.

Pero, sobre todo, de igual suerte que los escritores llegan a menudo a un poder de concentración de que les hubiera dispensado el régimen de libertad política o de anarquía literaria, cuando están atados de pies y manos por la tiranía de un monarca o de una poética, por los rigores de las reglas prosódicas o de una religión de Estado, así Francisca, como no podía replicarnos de una manera explícita, hablaba como Tiresias y hubiera escrito como Tácito.

like an entirely cloudless sky when one is going mountaineering...

I saw her thus, solid, flushed, opulent and captive, returning home quite naturally with myself, as a woman who was my own property, and, protected by its walls, disappearing into our house. Unfortunately, she seemed to feel herself a prisoner there, and to share the opinion of that Mme. de La Rochefoucauld who, when somebody asked her whether she was not glad to live in so beautiful a home as Liancourt, replied: "There is no such thing as a beautiful prison

as great poets do when the tyranny of rhyme forces them into the discovery of their finest lines.

La filosofia parla spesso di atti liberi e di atti necessari. Forse non ve n'è nessuno più completamente subìto da noi di quello che, in virtù di una forza ascensionale compressa durante l'azione, fa, quando il nostro pensiero è in riposo, risalire così un ricordo livellato agli altri dalla forza oppressiva della distrazione, e slanciarsi, perché a nostra insaputa esso conteneva più degli altri un fascino di cui ci accorgiamo soltanto ventiquattro ore dopo.

Then it would begin to seem unintelligible, as the thoughts of a former existence must be to a reincarnate spirit; the subject of my book would separate itself from me, leaving me free to choose whether I would form part of it or no; and at the same time my sight would return and I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more, perhaps, for my mind, to which it appeared incomprehensible

Ve gözya?lar?m? silerken de, büyüdü?üm vakit di?er insanlar?n anlams?z hayatlar?n? taklit etmeyece?ime ve bahar geldi?i zaman, e?er Paris'te olursam, davetlere gidip türlü saçmal?klar dinleyece?ime, k?rlara gidip açan ilk akdikenleri görece?ime söz veriyordum...

After leaving this park the Vivonne began to flow again more swiftly. How often have I watched, and longed to imitate, when I should be free to live as I chose, a rower who had shipped his oars and lay stretched out on his back, his head down, in the bottom of his boat, letting it drift with the current, seeing nothing but the sky which slipped quietly above him, shewing upon his features a foretaste of happiness and peace.

Her kad?n, bir erke?in üzerindeki gücü ne kadar fazlaysa, gitmenin tek yolunun da kaçmak oldu?unu hisseder. Kraliçe oldu?u için kaçak olmak zorundad?r.

Entonces, Sofía, ¿cuál sería la forma correcta de ser mujer? Y la sonrisa compasiva de Sofía. -Ninguna. O todas.

Ya instalada, miré a mi alrededor y no pude reprimir un suspiro de satisfacción respaldado por los rayos de sol blancos y calientes que invadían el lugar. ¿Puede haber una sensación más excitante (y atemorizante a la vez, lo reconozco) para una mujer que el sentirse fuera del alcance de los demás, de los cercanos que la aman pero que simultánea y sutilmente la ahogan?

I never dreamed that one day it would be one of my favorite everyday words. Fuck this, fucking that, don't give a fuck. I love it. It's perfect for emphasis!