Quotes About Freedom

Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations.

Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.

It's dusk, dearest. (In passing, isn't 'dusk' a lovely word? I like it better than twilight. It sounds so velvety and shadowy and—and—dusky.) In daylight I belong to the world; in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself—and you. — L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (Oxford City Press, 2012)(via luthienne)

I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest,' but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm.

Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." The most terrible and tremendous saying in the world, Jane… because we are all afraid of truth and afraid of freedom… that's why we murdered Jesus.

Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well but there is more 'scope for the imagination without them. - Anne Shirley

Let your spirit soar to heaven with it whenever you use it, like the bird who once bore it.

I don't feel like tame domestic joys today. I want to feel alone and free and wild.

I'm going to imagine that I'm the wind that is blowing up there in those tree tops. When I get tired of the trees I'll imagine I'm gently waving down here in the ferns—and then I'll fly over to Mrs. Lynde's garden and set the flowers dancing—and then I'll go with one great swoop over the clover field—and then I'll blow over the Lake of Shining Waters and ripple it all up into little sparkling waves. Oh, there's so much scope for imagination in a wind!

I am no bird, and no net ensnares me.

La libertad os hará libres

Burada hayal kurabileceÄŸim daha geniÅŸ bir alan var.

where to blow from next for sheer crazy delight

Fakat kimseyi incitmediÄŸimiz sürece, istediÄŸiniz zaman aptalca davranam?yorsan?z özgür ve yaÅŸl? bir han?m olman?n ne anlam? var?

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!

Freedom!' Mrs. Lynde sniffed. 'Freedom! Don't talk like a Yankee, Anne.

O yolu seviyorum çünkü orada insanlar sana deli olduÄŸunu söylemeden yüksek sesle düÅŸünebilirsin.

No son espléndidas esas gaviotas? ¿Le gustaría ser una gaviota? Yo creo que a mí sí; eso es, si no pudiera ser un ser humano. ¿No cree que sería bonito despertarse con los rallos del sol y zambullirse dentro del agua y salir otra vez, y así durante todo el día? ¿Y luego, por la noche, volar de vuelta al nido? Puedo imaginarme haciéndolo.

don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid

do love the west wind. It sings of hope and gladness, doesn't it?

Hayallerde t?pk? gölgeler gibi, onlar? kafese koyamazs?n, sürekli dans etmek isteyen ele avuca s??maz ÅŸeyler...

We're not in the habit of shutting people up in dark, damp dungeons, said Marilla dryly, especially as they're rather scarce in Avonlea.

Let the Piper come and welcome, he cried, waving his hand. I'LL follow him gladly round and round the world.