Quotes About Independence

Muchas veces nuestra libertad es tan intensa que miramos para otro lado.

Tento isolar-me para encontrar a vida em si mesma. No entanto apoiei-me demais no jogo que distrai e consolo e quando dele me afasto, encontro-me bruscamente sem amparo.

This is not a lament, it's the cry of a bird of prey.

The minute she sensed he had left the house, however, she transformed, concentrated on herself and, as if she had merely been interrupted by him, continued slowly living.

The world independed on me — that was the trust I had reached: the world independed on me, and I am not understanding whatever it is I'm saying, never! never again shall I understand anything I say.

Si fuese protegida por Ulises todavía más de lo que era, ambicionaría pronto lo máximo: ser protegida hasta el punto de no temer ser libre: pues de sus huidas de libertad tendría siempre de donde volver.

But as long as I have myself I won't be alone

Uma jovem mulher cheia do próprio destino

Soledad es tener sólo destino humano. Y soledad es no necesitar. No necesitar deja a un hombre muy solo, totalmente solo.

I struggle to conquer more deeply my freedom of sensations and thoughts without any utilitarian meaning: I am alone, I and my freedom.

Depois que descobri em mim mesma como é que se pensa, fazendo comigo mesma negociatas, nunca mais pude acreditar no pensamento dos outros.

Özgürlük? Benim nihai s???na??m, kendimi özgürlüÄŸe zorlad?m ve bunu bir yetenek gibi deÄŸil de kahramanl?k gibi ta??yorum: kahramanca özgürüm. Ve ak??? istiyorum.

I lost something that was essential to me, and that no longer is. I no longer need it, as if I'd lost a third leg that up until then made it impossible for me to walk but that turned me into a stable tripod… I know I can only walk with two legs. But I feel the useless absence of that third leg and it scares me, it was the leg that made me something findable by myself, and without even having to look for myself.

When the ancient goddesses—Ishtar, Astarte, Inanna, Isis, Diana, Athena…and, yes, Mary—were described as virgins, it didn't mean that they had never been touched, had never felt desire, or had never experienced sexual union. It meant that no man could own them or defile them. They were not pure or chaste, but green and powerful, these virgins—able to resurrect the land and remake the world with the coming of every spring.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

went with you or not." "But what would happen if you quit him and stayed here in Marseille?" "I don't care." Aslima began dancing round the room singing a pig-song in her language which is something like this translated: Want to know what's loving sweet, Want to know what's loving big? When two naughty lovers meet And unite in loving pigs.

Being an old maid is a little bit like drowning. A really delightful sensation once you give up the struggle.

Elena lo espera en silencio, frente a él pero de espaldas, y antes de que responda dice, mejor no me ponga un nombre, Padre, tal vez si usted o su iglesia encuentran una palabra para nombrarme, después se arroguen el derecho de decirme cómo tengo que ser, cómo tengo que vivir. O morir.

Ser un solitario es algo constitutivo, una forma de ser, algo que no suele cambiar con el paso del tiempo ni con que se llene la casa de gente.

It is surely gratuitous to point out that the author suffered from an edifice complex (writing of Ayn Rand)

I wasn't really eight anymore. The day you know danger and fear, and know that you are alone, is the day you grow, if not up, then old.

al corazón no se le dan órdenes, decía, el corazón se rompe, y si se le dice que no se rompa se rompe igualmente, como el mío...

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

He calmly rode on, leaving it to his horse's discretion to go which way it pleased, firmly believing that in this consisted the very essence of adventure.