Quotes About Independence

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

For old age is respected only if it defends itself, maintains its rights, submits to no one, and rules over its domain until its last breath.

É impossível não ser felicíssimo quem em tudo depende apenas de si e em si mesmo tudo apóia.

I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realized the person I was waiting for was myself.

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

I am not your justification for existence.

One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion Give it up and you will be free.

Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer me I can't find otherwise except humiliation? Which I no longer need.

She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her life, but they hadn't been convincing. They'd been somewhat like her table - quickly acquired, brightened up a little, but temporary. The time for that kind of thing was running out, however. She was tired of renting.

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing.

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.

I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

You want your decisions taken away from you so you won't be responsible for your own actions?