Paul Simon Quotes

When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.'

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

Before going into a room, make sure you can get out again.

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

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

She has given me a way out.

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.

There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if she were here now, she would say, "Go.

It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.

Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free.

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.

It hurts when it don't last, no easy way saying bye. So I'mma spread my wings and head for the sky.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

When you don't need to play the victim or create victims you are FREE

Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

I didn't need taming. I needed saving.

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

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

South Africa needs a second liberation.

You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?

all bags are pack ready to go i am standing here outside your door i hate to wake you up to say goodbye dawn is braking its early morn the taxi waiting he blowing his horn already i am so lonesome i could die so kiss me and smile for me tell me that you'll wait for me and hold me like you never let me go cause leaving on a jet plane don't know when ill be back again oh babe i hate to go there so many let you down so many time i played around i tell you know that don't mean a thing every plase i go i'll think of you every song i sing i'll sing for you.