Shackles Quotes

“When the rusty shackles of our emotions are being unchained, we can become lovers without a cause, and intrinsically the deepest wells of our unconsciousness may uncover the uncharted territories of deliverance, granting free rein to our intuition and giving love downright carte blanche. ("Another empty room" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When we feel abandoned along the road of indifference, we can jam our path into our thinking mind, breaking free from the shackles of inattention, getting our life together, uncovering our identity, and resurfacing in a world of sympathy and understanding. (”Life with sea view”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I don't know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped around him like shackles he can never take off.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him. The branches tore at my skin in an effort to bind me, while weeds sought to shackle my ankles, so that I could go no further. The pain they caused was minor, when I compared it to the searing inferno at my core.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness

“Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you'll be set free forever.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“{Colonel Carr's testimony of Colonel Robert Ingersoll at his funeral}

He was the boldest, most aggressive, courageous, virile, and the kindest and gentlest and most considerate and loving man I ever knew. His was a nature that yielded to no obstacles, that could not be moved nor turned aside by the allurements of place or position, the menaces of power, the favors of the opulent, or the enticing influences of public opinion. Entering upon his career in an age of obsequiousness and time-serving, when the values of political and religious views were estimated by what they would bring from the ruling party and from the church, in offices and emoluments and benefices, he assailed the giant evils of the times with the strength and power of Hercules and ground them to dust under his trip-hammer blows. Throughout his whole active life, there has been no greater and more potential influence than the personality of this sublime character in breaking the shackles of the slave, and in freeing men and women and children from the bonds of ignorance and superstition.”
― Eugene Asa Carr

“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be
The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin
Your head's under water when you learned to swim
On a road to hell, congratulations, you're free...”
― Sanhita Baruah

“Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst person in the world. You were snared. You were hooked. But you don't have to stay that way. Now is the time to deal with the shackles that keep you enslaved. Today you can leave the prison that sexual immorality has created from your past mistakes. Hear your Father's voice call out to you above the noisy clamor of our culture. He says, "I love you. You're free to go now. Sexual sin has no hold on you.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“Sometimes the shackles of oneself are worse than those of others.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“When you’re free from the shackles of solitude you never get the sense any mountain is too high to scale, or any horizon is too far to conquer.”
― Saim .A. Cheeda

“Social constantly exerts pressure on individuals to conform to the moral code of conduct and the individual always tries to free himself from the shackles of morality. Astrong person redefines the morality of society while a weak person is crushed by the society’s moral pressure.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“The aftermath of bearing shackles is an exquisite devastation, fraught with the ravages of survival. Even though one is no longer held captive—be that from a person, a government, or one’s inner self—the scars are deeply engraved into one’s psyche, and there’s no remedy for the soul. Many have the misconception that freedom equals happiness forever and ever.
That’s a wicked delusion.”
― Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls

“Please don't waste-away in front of a TV waiting to win a lottery during the precious few hours you are not imprisoned in corporate shackles.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains.”
― Aisha Mirza

“Art gave me that freedom to enable myself. To recreate and process my thoughts, emotions and insecurities and to take ownership about what I am. Art allows me to get angry at myself, Art allows me to be hard on myself. Art allows me to be the demon under my own bed.

Something that I always desired in matters of love, but never felt fully. Because with Art there is never any shackles.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“Thankfulness is far more than the key that tenderly and rather gracefully unshackles me from all that binds me. Rather, it is in fact the sledgehammer that shatters the shackles. And that’s the best kind of key I can think of.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He was far beyond being fed up with it all, to the point that his simmering irritation was close to boiling over. He would be a slave to no one. No shackles would bind his hands and feet. He would be free, and yet the fetters of the past that he wished to fast aside instead held him fast, an invisible weight burdening his every step.”
― Rieko Yoshihara, Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger

“I was a terrible prince. After my parents were murdered, that place reminded me of nothing but ghosts and shackles. Life as a rogue suits me much better, but even I cannot stand idly by and let our people suffer.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Lost Prince of Nevaharday

“Enslavement to a cause that only enriches the lives of a few elite ultimately enslaves and entangles many. It is like moving
from one slave plantation to another slave plantation with the hopes the grass is greener and that the trees provide a better breeze and shade while still wearing the same shackles.”
― Tasha Hoggatt, What Makes You Great?

“Grains of sands can turn into mountains - by the simple act of blind belief in someones abilities.

Limitation in favor of density, or those eyes who reach far have responsibility to give directions.”
― Monaristw

“The men who built Africa’ are stories to be told in the future. A future that may never come, yet we hope for it. For what is a man without hope? A dead man. A selfless youth-inclusive forward-thinking leadership is all it will take. Just a reminder, we are our enemy, and greed is what drives most so-called leaders today; the truth hurts. The shackles of modern-day slavery are not out of sight after all.”
― Emmanuel Apetsi

“Maybe it’s not about breaking your shackles at all. Maybe it’s about making you bigger than anything that would ever try to shackle you ever again.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“God designed you to stand on your shackles.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My myopic vision shackles my soul to the misery of small ideas.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough