Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

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

So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

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

Freedom is about stopping the past.

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.

I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

Freedom is Letting Go.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

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

Anhamirak, abandon and freedom.

At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone.

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

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

Freedom from something is not freedom.

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

Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.