Freedom Desire Quotes

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.

As a kid, when I got to the edge of a cliff I wanted to jump off. I didn't want to kill myself. I wanted to fly.

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.

Even though the numbers are down with respect to favorability ratings, at every embassy and consular office tomorrow morning that we have, people will be lined up, and they'll all say the same thing, "We want to go to America." So we're still the leader of the world that wants to be free. We are still the inspiration of the rest of the world. And we can come back.

You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.

I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.

I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.

All creatures fight for freedom.

I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire to be free, and set me thinking of plans to gain my freedom.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

All I dream of is to be able to leave Egypt. If I found out I was banned from traveling, I won't let them imprison me.

I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk.

Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life.

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

Like me as a teen - and like many teenagers now - my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted.