Quotes About Freedom

Whenever I've tried to free my life from a set of the circumstances that continually oppress it, I've been instantly surrounded by other circumstances of the same order, as if the inscrutable web of creation were irrevocably at odds with me. I yank from my neck a hand that was choking me, and I see that my own hand is tied to a noose that fell around my neck when I freed it from the stranger's hand. When I gingerly remove the noose, it's with my own hands that I nearly strangle myself.

I was free from having to feel. It was in a certain sense home – the place, that is, where one doesn't feel.

To live is to crochet according to a pattern we were given. But while doing it the mind is at liberty, and all enchanted princes can stroll in their parks between one and another plunge of the hooked ivory needle. Needlework of things … Intervals … Nothing …

O prazer é para os cães, o bem-estar material é para os escravos; o homem tem a honra e o domínio.

Happy the man, then, who renounces everything and from whom, therefore, nothing can be taken or subtracted.

Ik heb nooit meer van het leven verlangd dan dat dat niets van mij zou eisen.

Abdicate from life in order not to abdicate from yourself.

I'M HELD by nothing, I hold on to nothing, I belong to nothing.

No el placer, no la gloria, no el poder: la libertad, únicamente la libertad.

To possess is to be possessed, and therefore to lose oneself.

La renuncia es la liberación. No querer es poder.

I am the escaped one. My soul seeks me/ through hills and valley/ I hope my soul/ never finds me.

To be born free is Man's greatest quality; it is what makes the humble hermit superior to kings, superior even to the gods, who are sufficient unto themselves only by virtue of their power but not by virtue of their disdain for it.

Özgürlük, yaln?z kalabilmeye denir. Ä°nsanlardan uzaklaÅŸabiliyorsan, onlara hiçbir muhtaçl???n, paraya ihtiyac?n, sürüye uyma içgüdün, aÅŸka, ÅŸana ÅŸöhrete hevesin ya da merak?n yoksa özgürsündür, bunlar?n hepsi sadece yaln?zl?ktan ve sessizlikten beslenir. Yaln?z yaÅŸayam?yorsan, doÄŸuÅŸtan kölesin demektir.

Özgür doÄŸduÄŸun, kendi kendine yetebilen, insanlardan uzak durabilen biri olduÄŸun halde, zavall?n?n teki olduÄŸun için insanlarla ya??yorsan, yaz?klar olsun sana. Ä°ÅŸte bu, nereye gidersen git, kendinde birlikte ta??yaca??n trajedindir.

Não o prazer, não a glória, não o poder: a liberdade, unicamente a liberdade

Ölüm bir kurtuluÅŸtur, çünkü ölen insan?n kimseye ihtiyac? kalmaz. Zavall? köle zorla kurtulmuÅŸ olur zevklerinden, ac?lar?ndan, arzulanan ve bitmek bilmeyen hayattan. Kral vazgeçemediÄŸi mülklerinden kurtulur. Zaferden zafere koÅŸanlar, hayatlar?n? adad?klar? zaferlerden kurtulur.

To sleep, to be far away, remote without knowing it, to forget with one's very body, to have the freedom of unconsciousness like a refuge on a forgotten lake, stagnating among thick foliage in the hidden depths of forests

The value of art is that it takes us away from here.

La artificialidad es la manera de disfrutar la naturalidad. Lo que he disfrutado de estos campos vastos, lo he disfrutado porque no vivo aquí. No siente la libertad quien nunca se ha visto oprimido.

A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento.

Se o que há de lixo moral e mental em todos os cérebros pudesse ser varrido e reunido, e com ele se formar uma figura gigantesca, tal seria a figura do comunismo, inimigo supremo da liberdade e da humanidade.

Consoler of the inconsolable, Tears of those who never cry, Hour that never sounds — free me from joy and happiness.

From birth to death, man is the slave of the same external dimension that rules animals. Throughout his life he doesn't live, he vegetatively thrives, with greater intensity and complexity than an animal.