Rumi Quotes

Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

Death is a slave's freedom.

Anhamirak, abandon and freedom.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

I froze in time! And I thought, "My God... I'm free!"

I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit.

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

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

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

Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

… true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul. History tells us that every oppressed class gained true liberation from its masters through its own efforts.

They [the slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom—jumped into the waves for freedom—starved for freedom—fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot—and their tyrants have been their historians!

It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

With wild eyes that had seen freedom.

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

Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.

Freedom is Letting Go.

To become truly free, you must surrender.

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.