Emma Goldman Quotes

When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.

Dance was my escape from reality.

It makes me feel young. Dancing just gives you youth. You can get lost in these moments where the day just seems better. There's something very freeing about dancing, and I love that.

Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free.

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your laughter, your playfulness is the recognition that you have understood me. Your seriousness shows that you have misunderstood me, you have missed it - because seriousness is nothing but sickness. It is another name of sadness; it is a shadow of death. And I am all for life. If it is needed for your laughter, your dance, even to reject me, then reject me - but don't reject the dance and the song and the life, because that is my teaching.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

It does not matter what you call the gaoler so long as he has the key that will open the door of your prison! Similarly, as I have the key to release Life from its prison, it does not matter in the least what you call either the key or myself. I am not concerned about the title.

I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.

If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

You like? You are happy? Yes? Okay, go! Go in the street.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

To dance is to live!

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

Keep puffing on the bubble until it breaks its confining walls and becomes the sea of joy.

Now man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful.

DNCE is “dance without the a.” It’s not a perfect word, and you don’t always have to be a perfect dancer to dance. Life is just sometimes not perfect.

We're flying free like birds in the sky, because we're ALIVE.