“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
"The End" from The Doors (1967)
" Always a playground instructor, never a killer running to two young girls freedom and enterprize
To Benito Mussolini, upon rescuing him from after his overthrow, as quoted in Hitler's Raid to Save Mussolini (2005) by Greg A. Annussek, p. 228.
“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
"The End" from The Doors (1967)
" Always a playground instructor, never a killer running to two young girls freedom and enterprize
O, Porcupine.
Brother, Sister (2006)
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
“The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.”
Ken Wilber (1949) American writer and public speaker
Source: A Brief History of Everything
“The song of the wind singer will set you free.”
William Nicholson (1948) British screenwriter, playwright and novelist
Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), The Wind Singer (Book 1), p. 77
“The truth will set you free — but first it will make you miserable.”
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
Attributed without citation to Mark Twain as well as Garfield in recent years, this may have arisen sometime in the 1970s. The earliest discovered citation is a poster in a residential treatment program for alcoholics in Syracuse, New York, [ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/04/truth-free/ described in a 1978 newspaper article]. Another early publication is is found in Pinochet's Chile : An Eyewitness Report, 1980/81 (1981) by Morna Macleod, p. 5
Misattributed