Chained Quotes

• We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

  Marcel Proust

  Different, Body, Kingdoms

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1104, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Success, Peace, Determination

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• If one of us is chained, none of us are free...

  Solomon Burke

  "Song: None of Us Are Free (Don't Give Up On Me)". July 23, 2002.

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• The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Courage, Risk, Suffering

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

  Bob Dylan

  Freedom, Hippie, I Hate You

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• We are chained to that which we do not forgive

  Richard Paul Evans

  Forgiving

  Richard Paul Evans (2000). “The Locket”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.

  Antonio Porchia

  Eye, Perspective, Earth

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Society

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• True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Freedom, Jail

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• When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

  Charles Dickens

  Waiting, Devil, Ready

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• The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.

  Neil Armstrong

  Opportunity, Forever, Achievement

  Neil Armstrong's remarks at the Apollo 11 30th Anniversary Press Conference at Kennedy Space Center, history.nasa.gov. July 16, 1999.

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• Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the conditions that brought them about.Forgiveness honors the heart's greatest dignity. Whenever we are lost, it brings us back to the ground of love.Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Past, Honor

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• Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Writing, Vanity, Cells

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

  Marcel Proust

  Fitness, Cancer, Knowledge

  Marcel Proust (1941). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove. The Guermantes way”

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• Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Believe, Wings, Each Day

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

  Bela Lugosi

  Life, Thinking, People

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• You can get what you want. Never sell out. Don't break. Don't weaken. Don't let the kindness of strangers be your salvation, for it is no salvation at all. Unless you sleep alone, you sleep with the enemy. Never come out of the storm. On the other hand, maybe you should. You don't have what it takes to go the hard way. Come out of the cold and sit by the fire. Let them warm you with the smiles and promise of friendship's fortune. Lose your edge. A soft body and chained mind suit you. Chances are you don't have what it takes to walk the frozen trail. Stay home and relax.

  Henry Rollins

  Kindness, Sleep, Home

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• Man must get back to himself before he can learn his relation to his fellows. Prometheus chained to the Rock of Ages is doomed to remain the prey of the vultures of darkness. Unbind Prometheus, and you dispel the night and its horrors.

  Emma Goldman

  Night, Men, Rocks

  Emma Goldman (1983). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Schocken

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• Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Humanity, Wheels

  Friedrich Schiller, Walter Hinderer (1993). “Essays”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Character, Gossip, Rumor

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts become shackled, our emotions are chained, the will is almost paralyzed. But when we show mercy, all of these bonds are broken, and we enter into a joyful liberty that frees us to share God's love with others.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Forgiveness, Broken, Liberty

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• We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Gold, Immortality

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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• You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

  Carlos Castaneda

  Understanding, Affair, Reason

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• Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

  Henry Rollins

  Ignorance, Feet, Racism

  "Henry Rollins' Letter to a Young American (Pt. 2)". bigthink.com.

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• Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Fire, Self

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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