Isabelle Eberhardt Quotes

It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.

The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by servitude and yet always willing to accept the slipping on of the harness. There are limits to every domain, and laws to govern every organized power. But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the non-existent horizon, and her empire is an intangible one, for her domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

One of the things that make motorcycling so great is because it never fails to give you a feeling of freedom and adventure.

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me Take me out to the black Tell them I ain't comin' back Burn the land and boil the sea You can't take the sky from me There's no place I can be Since I found Serenity But you can't take the sky from me.

She knows where she's going, and what she has to do. She could, after all, find her way to Route 95 South blindfolded. She could do it in the dark, in fair weather or foul; she can do it even when it seems she will run out of gas. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

I think living in a new country gives you a certain bravery that you don't have when you live in your own country - because of the freedom it gives you.

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

It isn't love when another person cannot give you the space to live your own life.

There's nothing better than being able to give your children wings so they can soar and fly in the direction they want to go in.

If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.

If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.

Better to dream than to be.

I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!

Be brave, be bold, be free.

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.