Quotes About Freedom

Voleva evadere, fuggire sempre più lontano, rompere brutalmente con la vita quotidiana, per respirare all'aria aperta. E c'era poi, di tanto in tanto, quel timore panico di fronte alla prospettiva che le comparse che ti sei lasciato alle spalle potessero ritrovarti e venirti a chiedere conto di qualunque cosa. Bisognava nascondersi per sfuggire a quei ricattatori sperando un giorno definitivamente fuori dalla loro portata.

Something—he wondered later if it was simply his youth—something that had weighed upon him until that moment broke off him, the way a piece of rock slides slowly into the sea and disappears in a spray of foam.

Quelle délivrance tandis que tous ces mots sortaient de ma bouche… Une partie de ma vie s'achevait, une vie qui m'avait été imposée. Désormais, ce serait moi qui déciderais de mon sort.

J'avançais avec ce sentiment de légèreté qui vous prend quelque fois dans les rêves. Vous ne craignez plus rien, tous les dangers sont dérisoires.

you can make it up completely. A new life. They're not going to go and check. As you tell of this imaginary life, great breaths of fresh air rush across a closed room in which you have been unable to breathe for a long time. A window abruptly opens, the shutters bang in the breeze. You have, once again, a future before you.

Eram absolut hotarata sa nu ma mai intorc niciodata la gasca de la Canter. Mai tarziu, am regasit aceeasi stare de betie de fiecare data cand rupeam legatura cu cineva. Nu eram cu adevarat eu insami decat in clipa in care plecam. Singurele mele amintiri placute sunt cele ale fugii precipitate. Dar viata iesea intotdeauna invingatoare.

No era de verdad yo misma más que mientras escapaba.

Non ero veramente me stessa se non nel momento in cui fuggivo. Gli unici bei ricordi che ho sono ricordi di fughe vere e proprie o di scappatelle da casa.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

Except I didn't say eff

But I don't care what you think, not about these things anyway. If you don't think they're real or important or you think that we'll all grow out of this nonsense, well, that's not really my business. I can't tell you what's real for you. But in return, you can't say what's real for me either. I get to choose. Not you.

You let me go," I say. "I'll show you all about how I'm gonna transform you.

To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

But I'm still thinking about being born on a spaceship, an honest to badness spaceship. Growing up while flying along the stars, able to go wherever you wanted, not stuck on some hateful planet which clearly don't want you. You could go anywhere. If one place didn't suit, you'd find another. Full freedom in all direkshuns. Could there possibly be anything cooler in the whole world than that?

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry.

Never love something so much it can be used to control you.

It's like a rule of life that yer automatically happier when you don't gotta worry about something.

There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries

The thing is, Todd, people don't really want freedom, no matter how much they might bleat on about it.

That's because the desire of most folks is to be told what to do." He looks back across the square, covered in tents and soldiers and townsfolk all huddled together. "People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.