Quotes About Independence

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

If he stayed at home and carried on with his normal life he would be a thousand times superior to these people and could get any of them out of his way just with a kick.

Don't concern yourself about anybody. Just do what you think is right.

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

Don't look at him! he snapped, without noticing how odd it was to speak to free men in this way

Yesterday I advised you not to write me every day, I still hold the same opinion today and it would be very good for both of us, and so I repeat my advice today even more emphatically - only please, Milena, don't listen to me, and write me every day anyway

A man is lying on his deathbed and in the independence gained by the proximity of death, he says: 'I have spent my life fighting the desire to end it.' Then a pupil mocks his teacher, who talks of nothing but death: 'You're always talking about death and yet you do not die.' 'And yet I will die. I'm just singing my last song. One man's song is longer, another man's is shorter. At most, however, they differ by only a few words.

If I didn't hold back for my parents' sake, I would've quit ages ago.

I must be alone a great deal. What I have achieved is only a result of being alone.

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.

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.

This can be explained by my theory that living authors have a living relationship with their books. With their very existence they fight for or against them. The true, independent life of the book doesn't begin until the death of the author, or more correctly some time after his death, for these zealous men keep struggling for their books even a while after they have died. But then the book is left all alone and has to rely on the strength of its own heartbeat.

I am free and that's why I am lost

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

Girls of that age, though, do become enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever they can.

when you've been in this world for thirty years and had to make your way on your own, as has been my lot, you get hardened to surprises and don't take them too seriously.

Niet zo haastig,' zei de geestelijke, 'neem niet de mening van een ander over zonder na te denken. Ik heb je het verhaal letterlijk zo verteld als het in de tekst staat. Van misleiden staat daarin niets.

The animal twists the whip out of its master's grip and whips itself to become its own master—not knowing that this is only a fantasy, produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

C?s?toria este desigur atestarea celei mai masive forme de autoeliberare ?i de independen??.

Horses are wild animals, essentially, and they're not there to do what humans want them to - they can be browbeaten or cajoled or trained, but they don't hear English; they're not obedient most of the time.

You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

It was very unusual for anyone to be her own person in the wild West.

The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.