I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a… — Uma Krishnaswami Copy Share Image
“Ruefully, nobody perceives me as exceptionally gifted, intelligent, handsome, or physically strong. My sense of alienation stems from an inferiority complex, depressive… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“and one knows, after a long time of solitude, after the many steps taken away from one's kind, toward the kingdom of… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
New Living Translation And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“At a time when there are more refugees than ever, the rich world has turned its back on them. Our myths and… — Ben Rawlence Copy Share Image
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the… — Hal Lindsey Copy Share Image
History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different,… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I believe if I should die, And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie Cold, dead, and dumb to all the… — Mary Ashley Townsend Copy Share Image
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
I stand as I always have with the Cuban people who love, cherish and celebrate liberty. Hard-working, helpful people who open their… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
“For many people, the expression “disconnecting from the world” essentially means disconnecting from society—for this is the only world they know.” — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
![“In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and artificial dull and deaden the human spirit [] In contrast, the Beautiful offers us an invitation to order, coherence, and unity. When these needs are met, the…” quote by John O'Donohue](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d37/john-o-donohue-1919_beautiful_in-turning-away-from-beauty-we-turn-away_625329.jpg)
![“[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.” quote by Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/70f/elizabeth-i-3475_embarrassing_to-edward-de-vere-earl-of-oxford-on-his_732567.jpg)
![“[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.” quote by I. L. Peretz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a2d/i-l-peretz-22812_different_about-jews-by-nature-we-are-like-all-oth_352476.jpg)
