Paulo Coelho Quotes

I'm tired of the rules," I say.

Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.

I don't like rules.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

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

Freedom from something is not freedom.

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

I don't take well to rules.

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

I refused then like I do now to let anybody tie me down

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

The key of joy is disobedience.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.