Ethan Carter III Quotes

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

You'll never know how sweet freedom can be unless you've lost it for eight and a half years.

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

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom on those who are not free.

I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.

I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

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.

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.