Gregory David Roberts Quotes

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

I am a free man.

Freedom is living without chains.

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.

I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece

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

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

This is the one thing I hope: that she never stopped. I hope when her body couldn't run any farther she left it behind like everything else that tried to hold her down, she floored the pedal and she went like wildfire, streamed down night freeways with both hands off the wheel and her head back screaming to the sky like a lynx, white lines and green lights whipping away into the dark, her tires inches off the ground and freedom crashing up her spine.

Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.

After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

I've been a free man.

To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.

Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle.

Those who shall have tasted actual freedom I believe can never be slaves, or quasi slaves again.

Freedom is not something you're even trying to fight for; you are free. Go. Make sure you live free every day.

Once people enjoy the taste of freedom, there is no turning back.

But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a wanted man, a hunted man, with a price on my head. And I was still one step ahead of them. I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free." He laughs.

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.