Freedom Seeking Quotes

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)

I have to take some time to dream some new dreams. I feel like there's a treasure hunt in front of me. A treasure hunt that is speckled with and seeded by a deep-rooted wild freedom.

That's what snowboarders do: we break rules.

Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why

I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.

Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

I came from the projects. So there were times I'd wake up at night, and my palms would be itching to get out. But no matter where I was, I always looked at the stars, because there's nothing ugly about the sky. That was my escape.

I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.

It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and seek freedom in retirement, as Thoreau sought at Walden Pond. They do not, however, in this manner escape from the social institutions of their time, nor do they really mean to do so; what they gain, if they are successful, is a saner relation to them.

My social life goes in bursts, where I get like, "Oh, I gotta get out and do something, man, I gotta do something." And I'll plan a trip and go on a motorcycle trip down the Baja Peninsula for 900 miles and I'll hang out with my friends for like a month, and then they'll never see me for two months or three months or whatever, and I won't answer any calls.

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

… in the long run it is always the searching for a more secure guarantee of freedom which is the common factor among anarchists

I don't want to leave the house, and I don't want to settle down.

I wouldn't say I'm a rebel, but I do like pushing the limits sometimes.

You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

I don't know who I am outside of someone who's just trying to be free and find safety for myself and for others.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.