Quotes About Independence

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

What he also records is his delight in discovering that, if only adults left him alone, he could, through reading, escape into a world of his own.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

They think the government shows people everything —how to work, study, eat, sleep and that's it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do it. You are free, people, free!

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

One discourse celebrates detachment with the image of a rhinoceros: 'One whose mind is enmeshed in sympathy for friends and companions, neglects the true goal. Seeing this danger in intimacy, wander alone like a rhinoceros. … As a deer in the wilds, unfettered, goes for forage wherever it wants: the wise person, valuing freedom, wanders alone like a rhinoceros.

Da rabia cuando te construyen caminos, lo único que consiguen es que quieras rebelarte contra ellos, ¿verdad?

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.

La autonomía es lo menos gratuito de este mundo, y si no se conquista cotidianamente lleva en seguida a situaciones de agravio y servidumbre. Sólo hubo y hay tiranos porque otros prefirierons y prefieren rendirse al miedo antes que correr el riesgo de luchar.

Un tenace, fiero sentimento d'indipendenza intellettuale resisteva in lei all'amore. Ella poteva tranquillamente giudicar suo marito, riconoscerne le imperfezioni e sentiva ch'egli non poteva altrettanto, lo sentiva umile nel suo amore, devoto senza fine.

Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

What had excited most about her from the start was what made him most afraid and what had eventually taken her away from him: the strength of her will.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

Night is a world lit by itself

I have abandoned the beggarly necessity of living. I live without it.

Tenemos un mundo para cada uno, pero no tenemos un mundo para todos.

I am chained to the earth to pay for freedom of my eyes.

One learns not to need by needing.

E anche questo mi dà il senso di una libertà bella e superflua, come quando hai pensato a lungo di fare una certa cosa e finalmente ci sei riuscito. E ora, che fare?