Quotes About Independence

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

When you re the only one to do something it always gets done.

I'm not one of these guys who's constantly in a relationship, not at all.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whisky to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got.

The past is a foreign country, which maintains its independence with the same fierce determination as any 'Brexiteer'.

When you have a project, do it exactly as you see fit; then fit the facts around the event, not the other way around.

On the ragged edge of the world I'll roam. And the home of the wolf will be my home.

The primary fantasy of connection leads to a posture of pseudo-independence in the developing child—"I don't need anyone, I can take care of myself"—yet the irony is that the more the person relies on fantasy, the more helpless he or she becomes in the real world and the more he or she demands to be taken care of.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

I might read books and paint pictures but I'm not soft

Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: "They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never consent to become a slave.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

No mire lo que hagan los demás. No se le importe un pepino de lo que opine el prójimo. Sea usted, usted mismo sobre todas las cosas, sobre el bien y el mal, sobre el placer y sobre el dolor, sobre la vida y la muerte. Usted y usted. Nada más. Y será fuerte como un demonio entonces.

Yo ahora era un hombre libre, y ¿qué tiene que ver la sociedad con la libertad?

Rajá turrito, rajá

So I ended up being an anarchist. I was the only anarchist I knew and thank god, because otherwise I would have stopped being an anarchist. Unanimity pisses me off immensely.

When they turned, Pelletier and Espinoza saw an older woman in a white blouse and black skirt, a woman with a figure like Marlene Dietrich, as Pelletier would say much later, a woman who despite her years was still as strong willed as ever, a woman who didn't cling to the edge of the abyss but plunged into it with curiosity and elegance. A woman who plunged into the abyss sitting down .

No creo en la literatura como dietario, como diario de vida, como crónica personal; yo creo en la literatura como literatura, como un mecanismo, como una máquina autosuficiente, al menos con una autosuficiencia grande.

a woman who despite her years was still as strong willed as ever, a woman who didn't cling to the edge of the abyss but plunged into it with curiosity and elegance. A woman who plunged into the abyss sitting down.