Paulo Coelho Quotes

A caged canary is safe but not free.

One good thing about being locked in a cage: No responsibility!

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 don't want to live like a prisoner.

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

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.

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

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.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

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

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

I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.

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

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

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

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

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

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.

When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.