Top 100 Quotes About Exile
#1. The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.
Marc Wallice
#2. I am frightened. I have known fear before, but there was always an escape; even during the terror of the military coup there was the salvation of exile. Now I am in a blind alley with all doors closed to hope, and I don't know how to handle so much fear.
Isabel Allende
#3. I too have known the inward disturbance of exile,
The great peril of being at home nowhere,
The dispersed center, the dividing love;
Not here, nor there, leaping across ocean,
Turning, returning to each strong allegiance;
American, but with this difference - parting.
May Sarton
#4. I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.
George Santayana
#5. Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
Samuel Hall Lord
#6. Before annihilation comes an exile from Nature, and then only through wonder and transcendence, the Ghetto rabbi taught, may one combat the psychic disintegration of everyday life.
Diane Ackerman
#7. Everyone is born a king; some people die in exile
Oscar Wilde
#8. I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.
Kahlil Gibran
#9. Remember that when you say 'I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,' you have denied America with that word.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#10. I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile,
Ha Jin
#11. We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#12. [About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.
I.L. Peretz
#13. Truth is a leper banished from the hearts of men and rotting away in exile. All that is left is corruption, a bad smell, some unnameable pieces of what was once a thing lucent and good.
Rikki Ducornet
#14. The Pharisees deliberately avoided the Late form of Biblical Hebrew (LBH), which is the language of the Bible written after the exile, presenting their teaching in the language of the spoken vernacular.
Angel Saenz-Badillos
#15. What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.
Aleksandar Hemon
#16. No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
C.S. Lewis
#17. For I fear not to declare, that what I have here given may be regarded as a summary of the very doctrine which, they vociferate, ought to be punished with confiscation, exile, imprisonment, and flames, as well as exterminated by land and sea.
John Calvin
#18. As Albert Camus wrote, "We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and others.
Jack Kornfield
#19. Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
Albert Camus
#20. I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
Zadie Smith
#21. From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#22. Hospitality to the exile, and broken bones to the tyrant.
Walter Scott
#23. I believe if I should die,
And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie
Cold, dead, and dumb to all the world contains,
The folded orbs would open at thy breath,
And from its exile in the Isles of Death
Life would come gladly back along my veins.
Mary Ashley Townsend
#24. The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
Christopher Hitchens
#25. Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.
Jack Gleeson
#26. It occurs to me that my thinking has been faulty: we do not feel God's absence. We feel the absence of all that is lost to God, that which has set itself apart and refuses to return, believing itself to be in exile.
K.J. Bishop
#27. Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
Thomas Jefferson
#29. I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#30. Pilgrims were people in scientific exile.
Anne Carson
#31. Such are contrasts we see every day in the world. Joy and Sorrow! But Joy is an exile from Heaven who does not remain in any one place. Sorrow is a son of Hell who does not release his prey until he has torn it to pieces.
Gertrudis Gomez De Avellaneda
#32. This fifth and final sun will die,
Like every sun before
But for a moment we laughed in its light,
Like wind-blown petals
Sparkling near an exile's campfire
Before the flames take them.
David Bowles
#33. We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#34. In his youth, Jon Connington had shared the disdain most knights had for bowmen, but he had grown wiser in exile.
George R R Martin
#35. I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.
Knut Hamsun
#36. Exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.
Phyllis Chesler
#37. I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you're always an outsider...
Natasha Trethewey
#38. Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.
G.K. Chesterton
#39. One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him.
Desmond Tutu
#40. Your calling may be to find new ways to tell the story of redemption, to create fresh symbols tat will speak of a home for the homeless, the end of exile, the replanting of the garden, the rebuilding of the house.
N. T. Wright
#41. Bear patiently your exile and the dryness of your mind. The time will come when I will make you forget these painful moments and you will enjoy inward quietness. I will open the Bible for you and you will be thrilled by your new understanding of my truth.
Thomas A Kempis
#42. The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
Antony Jay
#43. To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.
N. T. Wright
#44. New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#45. The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.
Rumi
#46. Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.
Mason Cooley
#47. I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.
Saint Patrick
#48. Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.
Roberto Bolano
#49. Oscar and I are very close, and yet I know that part of him is still withdrawn, even from me. As though part of him was still in another place. Another country. Journeying, perhaps. Or in exile. Across the sea. And I can't be with him, because I haven't got the right sort of passport.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#50. I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.
Saint Patrick
#51. Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth.
Michael Ondaatje
#52. One cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.
Albert Camus
#53. Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
Milan Kundera
#54. Take thought.
I have weathered the storm,
I have beaten out my exile.
Ezra Pound
#55. Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled.
Cliff Bleszinski
#57. I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
Iman
#58. No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists.
Orhan Pamuk
#59. Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.
Ovid
#60. What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#61. How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her. Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.
Melina Marchetta
#62. Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Stefan Zweig
#63. Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#64. Living in France means I see the UK in snapshots. There is something quite nice about being in exile and the things you remember about places tend to be the most vivid details. You don't get that when you see somewhere every day.
Jonathan Trigell
#65. Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports.
Barack Obama
#66. In Genesis, and indeed for much of the Old Testament, the controlling image for death is exile. Adam and Eve were told that they would die on the day they ate the fruit; what actually happened was that they were
N. T. Wright
#67. No elderly person should be like an "exile" in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.
Pope Francis
#68. Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. It is the mind that creates our wealth, and this goes with us into exile, and in the harshest desert places it finds sufficient to nourish the body and revels in the enjoyment of its own goods.
Seneca.
#70. So all the generations from Abraham to David were 14 generations; and from David until the exile to Babylon, 14 generations; and from the exile to Babylon until the Messiah, 14 generations.
Anonymous
#71. Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
Isabel Allende
#72. kind. It was the most singular, and almost the most touching and melancholy exile that fancy can imagine. - One of
Mark Twain
#73. We sit together in the waiting room of one existence, waiting to be shuffled into the waiting room of the next. Not the existence of another lifetime, simply a different mindset, a different age, purpose, exile and a separate redemption. A separate world in which to wait.
Leigh Hershkovich
#74. In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#75. Exile, like memory, may be a place of hope and delusion. But there are rules of light there and principles of darkness ... The expatriate is in search of a country, the exile in search of a self. - Eavan Boland, OBJECT LESSONS
Kathleen Norris
#76. I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow really early and have to learn how to take care of themselves. They have trouble hinging their lives with anybody else.
Leigh Newman
#77. And it was one of these observers who designed the tests and simulations carried out on Old Earth during the last three centuries of its exile in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud to better explain our species to them and measure the empathy of which we are capable.
Dan Simmons
#78. We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.
David Whyte
#79. Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.
John Thorn
#80. If there is anything of which I am certain in life it is that I shall never exchange the liberty of my exile for the vile parody of home.
Vladimir Nabokov
#81. Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution, forced exile amidst the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the two World Wars and quite a lot of controversy, was an author who never gave up.
Ashwin Sanghi
#82. The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#83. This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#84. Drive out the demon called fear, and if it returns from exile grant it
no amnesty, sentence it to death.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#85. Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.
Thomas Merton
#86. It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way
Robertson Davies
#87. They are gone now. Fled, banished in death or exile, lost, undone. Over the land sun and wind still move to burn and sway the trees, the grasses. No avatar, no scion, no vestige of that people remains. On the lips of the strange race that now dwells there their names are myth, legend, dust.
Cormac McCarthy
#88. ...spells of incarceration or exile were almost badges of honour for Enlightenment writers.
Kate Berridge
#90. In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
Epictetus
#91. When Don Anastasio Somoza fled the country, he took with him everything he could carry, including all the cash in the national treasury. He even had the bodies of Tacho I and Luis Somoza dug up and they, too, went into exile. No doubt he would have taken the land as well, if he'd known how.
Salman Rushdie
#92. Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#93. An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
James Joyce
#94. It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.
Richard Griffiths
#95. It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.
Epictetus
#96. Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
Emil Cioran
#97. In Udi's vocabulary, Jewish was equated with the ills of exile: rootless parasitic, superstitious. Yet here, in the Western Wall's solitary dignity, was beauty. In this world of stone, he felt softness; in this quarry of memory, peace.
Yossi Klein Halevi
#98. Life strove mightily to exile orthodoxy, hospitalize heresy, and trap humanity into stupidity. It was an accumulation of used bandages soiled with layers of blood and pus. Life was the daily changing of the bandages of the heart that made the incurably sick, young and old alike, cry out in pain.
Yukio Mishima
#99. Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.
Ariel Dorfman
#100. Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional
Trinh T. Minh-ha
