Lisa Kleypas Quotes

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

Man is everywhere still in chains.

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

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

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

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

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.

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.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

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

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

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

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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

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