Conor Oberst Quotes

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

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.

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

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

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.

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

Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

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

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

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

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

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.

The first and often only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness... When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.

People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

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

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

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

There was something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.

We're not prisoners of the past.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.