Desire for Autonomy Quotes

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I’m not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?

Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.

Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.

Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you.

I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but you don't want to have the responsibilities of an adult. You still want to have the freedom.

I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play

But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.

The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.

To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.

Some people would rather change and some people don't. Some people don't want to be forced to stay in a certain atmosphere.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.