Amanda Lindhout Quotes

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

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

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

I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

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

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

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

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

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.

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

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 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.

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.

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

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

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

A caged canary is safe but not free.

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

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

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.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.