Top 100 Set It Free Quotes
#1. Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.
Nizar Qabbani
#3. I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
John Barrymore
#4. The soul is like a caged bird, it waits for the right person to open the door and set it free.
Belinda Taylor
#5. The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
Helen Keller
#6. The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more confidence you develop in your own sound, the more you can open up and alchemize that with other people, just set it free, and not feel challenged by that.
Bat For Lashes
#7. Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. They say, if you care about something, you have to set it free and if it comes back to you, it was meant to be."
"They're full of shit."
Obviously, I failed spectacularly at being philosophical.
Kristen Ashley
#9. If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
Chuck Palahniuk
#10. For it is a choice, I think, to close the heart, just as it is a choice to open it. It is a choice to look at what distresses you, and a choice to shut your eyes. It is a choice to hold tight your pain, or else let it slip your grasp, set it free to make its mark upon the world.
Beth Underdown
#11. For heartsickness of the unending variety, befriend a dove. Do not catch it, not even so that you can set it free. Just get down on the ground with bread crumbs on your chest and wait for it to find you interesting.
Ramona Ausubel
#12. Like a squash ball, locked inside an all-glass court, played in a never ending Sisyphean rally between two invisible and equally able opponents, that's what the Digital State first felt like. A descriptor in search of a winning shot, to break the deadlock, to set it free.
Simon Pont
#13. There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
Michelangelo
#14. A crazy elation caught hold of Joel, he ran, he zigzagged, he sang, he was in love, he caught a little tree-toad because he loved it and because he loved it he set it free, watched it bounce, bound like the immense leaping of his heart;
Truman Capote
#15. If you love something, set it free. And if it really loves you, it will find a way to come back.
Selena Gomez
#16. To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.
Martin Luther
#17. When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.
Rob Sheffield
#18. My body is on fire, aching and clawing at me to set it free. It wants to come out to play alright. It wants recess with Ian. He's everything I'm not, and I love it.
Scarlet Wolfe
#19. If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you.
Meg Cabot
#21. Frieda B.'s a big dreamer, that's certainly true, but the world's biggest dreamer is also in you. All the color and music inside - set it free. Just dream your dreams big and believe they can be.
Renata Bowers
#22. Swords could also be used for freeing. You could've cut through the chain around the bird's foot and set it free. Swords could be used for killing. But it needn't be the bird. Wouldn't the more merciful choice have been to use the sword against the oppressor?
Roshani Chokshi
#23. Every human being has divinity encased within its spirit and it is the task of its creator as well as itself to set it free. No human being is an end product, every being still breathing is a creation still under creation.
Toni Sorenson
#24. 'Door,' called Richard. 'Don't do it. Don't set it free. We don't matter.'
'Actually,' said the marquis, 'I matter very much. But I have to agree. Don't do it.'
Neil Gaiman
#25. To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.
Leonore Fleischer
#26. I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.
Arthur Darvill
#28. The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
Helen Keller
#29. The best way to protect something is to set it free.
T.A. Barron
#30. Any work of art," said her grandfather,"must achieve sainthood before we set it free to roam in the world.
Jane Urquhart
#31. No matter how difficult your life has been, you can be certain that your soul is still in perfect condition, waiting for you to set it free.
Ilchi Lee
#32. I saw my success in the mirror and shattered it, in order to set it free.
Lionel Suggs
#33. Righteous passion is an innocent prisoner
until the day you set it free.
Sinful passion is a guilty prisoner;
lock it up and throw away the key.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#34. Magic came from within, from turning a secret key that lurked inside, waiting for the words to set it free. The
A.J. Hartley
#35. If you love something set it free or cripple it so it can't get away.
Van
#36. That night Tommy kissed him and eased his way into Chase's body so gently that when Chase came, his vision washed in white, not red, and it did for him what sex with Tommy always did for him: set him free and let him fly.
Amy Lane
#37. But then I think, this happens sometimes, doesn't it? People you have a history with, they won't let you go, and as hard as you might try, you can't disentangle yourself, can't set yourself free. Maybe after a while you just stop trying.
Paula Hawkins
#38. Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to be Voldemort's final Horcrux, Nagini
J.K. Rowling
#39. purpose was not to make us worthy of God's love, but to set us free to see that we already have it. And
Wayne Jacobsen
#40. Even if I have to do it alone, I will free all sentient beings from suffering and the causes of suffering, and set all sentient beings in happiness and its causes.
Dalai Lama XIV
#41. Honestly, what I think set everything off is when I cut my hair off when I was 16 and dyed it blue. After that, I just felt so free and wanted to experiment with my look.
Kylie Jenner
#42. Somethin in me has been set free from a cage I never knew was there. It flies with Yellachile at night, and we go together on the wind.
Robert McCammon
#43. Rarely does the truth set us free. Usually it chains us to the earth like a ghost.
Sarah Noffke
#44. Freedom that is not fought for, that is not gained by personal sacrifice is freedom that will never last, because in the heart of the one set free, it will have little value. A treasure that costs nothing is a treasure that is easily neglected and lost.
Bryan Davis
#45. It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.
Jenny Downham
#46. The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.
Jon Foreman
#47. There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#48. I believe that the data will set you free. At the end of the day, it's about how do you turn those pieces of information into insights that will improve business.
Steven Rice
#49. Silences seem longer in darkness. I think it's because it's harder to lie when the lights are off. There's a rawness that only belongs to the night and the truth can't help but be set free.
Katie McGarry
#50. The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a David Twohy behind that camera, there is zero pressure. There is just me jumping into a pool called 'Riddick.' It's the most free I am. It's like channeling something.
Vin Diesel
#51. Love will not betray you, dismay you or enslave you- it will set you free
Mumford & Sons
#52. True love is something, so very true and very rare to find. So, if you ever find such a thing. Treat it as if it were some treasure. Because, once you find such a thing and set free; it will not ever return. So, treat it as if its your most precious gift ...
Jynnette L. Miller
#53. I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will; it cannot be belabored.
Jack Vance
#54. Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.
Ally Carter
#55. Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
Robert Frost
#56. you must set her free. If you try to control her, she will hate you for it and you will lose her.
Marti Talbott
#57. And I didn't know if the forgiveness itself was light, glittery stuff that showered down and absolved a person and set them free, or if, instead, it was heavy, cumbersome, a new debt, a currency that was continuously renewed no matter how much was paid out.
Jane Hamilton
#58. They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie ... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.
Ani DiFranco
#59. You hold the key. And you can keep it in your hand for as long as you need to. But there will come a point where you're ready to use that key to break out of the jail you've put yourself in. Only you can set yourself free.
Brenda Rothert
#60. Through prayer, religion insists, things which cannot be realized in any other manner come about: energy which but for prayer would be bound is by prayer set free and operates in some part, be it objective or subjective, of the world of facts.
William James
#61. Cultivating self-love is an odyssey with moments of difficulty and joy. It's an excursion into knowing ourselves, learning to accept and deal with what we discover... and struggling with our fear of allowing in a little madness to set us free.
Bud Harris
#62. Sometimes it's not until you see your shackles that you see your dreams. The soul must first be caged before it can be set free.
Ken Ilgunas
#63. No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.
Wendell Phillips
#64. We will find it increasingly difficult to believe that we've been set free from sin, from the law's power to condemn, and that God's smile is resting upon us if we continually give ourselves over to what we know we should avoid. Sin strips our faith, and it leads to ultimate deadness in our lives.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#65. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.
Nick Hornby
#66. They say love is supposed to set you free, but I think love binds you. It's only once you're so full of joy that you can imagine a devastation of loss.
Jessica Posner
#67. 1. If something is worthwhile doing - do it well. Don't waste your and other's time.
2. Life is brief - never postpone forgiveness when in your power - it may set you free.
Danie Botha
#68. In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block.
Jacques Maritain
#69. Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free ... It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators ... What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
Scarlett Thomas
#70. I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free and I can move on.
Susane Colasanti
#71. We dangle by a flimsy thread,
Our little lives are grains of sand:
The Cosmos is a tiny sphere
Held in the hollow of God's hand.
Give up your anger and your spite,
And imitate the Deer, the Tree;
In sweet Forgiveness find your joy,
For it alone can set you free.
Margaret Atwood
#72. It was said of him that he had once been for a short time in Bedlam; they had done him the honour to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet. This story was probably not true; we have all to submit to some such legend about us.
Victor Hugo
#73. People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security ... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?
Jim Morrison
#74. Yet it is only when one is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream one has long cherished, or a privilege one has long possessed, that one is set free ... that one has set oneself free, for higher dreams, for greater privileges. James Baldwin
James Baldwin
#75. The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the doorway through which truth passes would be tightly shut, impervious to the strenuous poundings of a thousand Lucifer's.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#76. Forgiving other people does not mean that they will get away with what they did to you, it means that You are set free from the pain they have caused you. Forgiveness is the hardest lesson we are here to learn to master, but it is possible with time and patience.
Jeanette Coron
#77. We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.
Robert Breault
#78. Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.
Nelson Mandela
#79. These Aussie girls are free to set their own courses in the world, to meander and experiment. Their travels are not bumps along the road - they are life itself. See the world and then come home and decide who you want to be in it, not the other way around, as seems the general trajectory in the U.S.
Rachel Friedman
#80. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.
Alice Sebold
#81. Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.
Corey Hart
#84. Nobody's truly free. Everyone is prisoner to a secret, a sin, a lie. It wasn't by accident that, in the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could attain it.
J. Matthew Nespoli
#85. If someone puts you through hell, don't be mad or bitter about it, because the thing that will free you from that hell is forgiveness.
Jeanette Coron
#86. The truth may set you free. It won't fill your fuel tank.
Mira Grant
#87. Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You'd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?
Haruki Murakami
#88. If you set something free and it comes back to you, that's the beginning of it being yours.
John De Ruiter
#89. When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.
Diane Ackerman
#90. The whiskey had its own mind. Or spirit, he said. A cunning spirit. Sometimes it fooled him. Sometimes it set him free.
Louise Erdrich
#91. If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
Gloria Steinem
#92. I am running for president because it is obvious that no Democrat or Republican is ever going to stop the relentless growth of the federal government. only a Libertarian is going to set you free.
Harry Browne
#93. The truth may set you free, but first it will shatter the safe, sweet way you live.
Sue Monk Kidd
#94. If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.
George Orwell
#95. It's because of you that I've found the strength, the courage to love again. You set me free, and I'm no longer afraid.
L.G. Castillo
#96. Can you feel the rush? Listen quietly. It's there. It's the sound of a life and spirit being set free. God, help me set myself free from ridiculous and unnecessary expectations.
Melody Beattie
#97. Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.
Amish Tripathi
#98. The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.
Vladimir Nabokov
#99. ... the unimaginable age of the mountains and the fine mesh of living things that lay across them would remind him that he was part of this order and insignificant within it, and he would be set free.
Ian McEwan
#100. The truth can set you free, but when it comes, it's more like a wrecking-ball than a holy beam of illumination.
Bryant McGill
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