Quotes About Freedom

No, freedom was not what I wanted. Only a way out; right or left, or in any direction; I made no other demand; even should the way out prove to be an illusion; the demand was a small one, the disappointment could be no bigger. To get out somewhere, to get out! Only not to stay motionless with raised arms, crushed against a wooden wall.

Das Gericht will nichts von Dir. Es nimmt Dich auf wenn Du kommst und es entläßt Dich wenn du gehst.

And, incidentally: freedom is all too often self-deception among people. Just as freedom is among the most exalted of feelings, so the corresponding deception is among the most exalted of deceptions.

Kafka saw his tuberculosis as a liberation; interestingly, he called it the animal.

Tens inteira liberdade de te absteres dos sofrimentos do mundo, isso corresponde à tua natureza; mas talvez o facto de te absteres seja o único sofrimento que possas evitar

De que te queixas, alma abandonada? Porque razão esse voo agitado em torno da casa da vida? Porquê não olhar os longes que te pertencem em vez de lutar contra o que te é alheio? Mais vale o pombo vivo no telhado que o pardal semimorto que, na mão, se debate, crispado de terror.

Acreditar significa: libertar em nós o indestrutível, ou mais exactamente, libertar-se, ou mais exactamente, ser indestrutível, ou mais exactamente: ser.

Pensó cómo en otros tiempos había pronunciado su nombre con entera libertad, pero ahora suponía una carga para él

But the condemned man looked so submissively doglike that it seemed as if he might have been allowed to run free on the slopes and would only need to be whistled for when the execution was due to begin.

En el portón me detuvo para preguntarme: «¿Hacia dónde cabalga el señor?». «No lo sé -respondí-. Sólo quiero irme de aquí, solamente irme de aquí. Sólo así puedo alcanzar mi meta.» «¿Conoce, pues, su meta?», preguntó él. «Sí -contesté yo-. Lo he dicho ya. Salir de aquí, ésa es mi meta.»

As Karl Rossmann, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had seduced him and got herself with child by him, stood on the liner slowly entering the harbour of New York, a sudden burst of sunshine seemed to illumine the Statue of Liberty, so that he saw it in a new light, although he had sighted it long before. The arm with the sword rose up as if newly stretched aloft, and round the figure blew the free winds of heaven.

16. Kafesin biri, bir kuÅŸ aramaya ç?kt?.

I am free, that is why I am lost.

Genellikle ba??ms?zl???n? yitirmiÅŸ biri olan ben, özerkliÄŸe, ba??ms?zl??a, her yöndeki özgürlüÄŸe sonsuz bir açl?k duymaktay?m […]. Bizzat kendimin yaratmad??? her baÄŸ, benliÄŸimin parçalar?na kar?? olsa, deÄŸersizdir, yürümemi engeller, bu baÄŸlardan nefret ederim ya da nefret etmeye çok yak?n bir his içindeyimdir.

The tremendous world I have in my head. But how to free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times better to be torn to pieces than to retain or bury it in me. That's why I'm here, after all, that's completely clear to me.

and if you run off down the long streets in the way you are doing — then for this evening, you have broken utterly from your family, who fade away into insubstantiality, while you yourself, absolutely solid, black and clear-cut, slapping your thighs, rise and assume your true form.

O mundo prodigioso que tenho na cabeça. Mas como me libertar e libertá-lo sem me dilacerar? E antes de ser mil vezes dilacerado do que retê-lo em mim ou enterrá-lo. Estou aqui para isso, dou-me perfeitamente conta.

First of all, the free man is superior to the bound man. Now the man is in fact free: he can go wherever he wishes, the entrance to the Law alone is denied to him, and this only by one person, the doorkeeper. If he sits on the stool at the side of the door and spends the rest of his life there, he does so of his own free will; the story mentions no element of force.

Und er stand vollkommen frei und warf die Beine. Er strahlte vor Einsicht.

I am free and that's why I am lost

Hot summer nights, mid-July, when you and I were forever wild.

it's often better to be in chains than to be free.

The tremendous world I have in my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it.

This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it. That seem to be located somewhere or other in its teeth, and its joy in living came with such strong passion from its throat that it was not easy for spectators to keep watching. But they controlled themselves, kept pressing around the cage, and had no desire to move on.