Harry Houdini Quotes

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.

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

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

Freedom is living without chains.

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

Let me go, let me go.

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

Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.

Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.

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

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

Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

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

I am a free man.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.

No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.

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

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

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

I think nobody can block me. Nobody can stop me.

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.