Francis Bacon Quotes

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

A man is the prisoner of his power.

There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there's no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking.

I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

I think there's something unromantic about marriage. You're closing yourself off.

There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.

I never know what time it is, If you don't know what time it is, you can just move. Time is a restraint.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.