Exile Quotes · Page 4

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way

— Robertson Davies

“Earth seemed a place of exile and I dreamt of heaven.”

— John Beevers

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

— Hiam Abbass

Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?

— Arthur Rimbaud

Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world's my way.

— William Shakespeare

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“A kiss, long as my exile, as sweet as my revenge.”

— William Shakespeare

“Whoever severs himself from Mother Earth and her flowing sources of life goes into exile.”

— Various

“It is your final gift to me: this room where I shall bleed and knit, as spinsters do.”

— Jill Alexander Essbaum

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

— Ariel Dorfman

An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.

— Andre Aciman

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

— Jonas Mekas

While living in exile I have become the loudspeaker for the people of Iran.

— Shirin Ebadi

I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the…

— Ovid

The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.

— Catherine Camus

“Until the blood from my pen runs dry, I shall worship the Greek body, the Greek mind, and the Greek soul. Until…

— Pietros Maneos

“Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home;exiles are are aware of at least two, and this plurality…

— Kobena Mercer

“Exiled by death from people we have known, We are reduced again by years, and try To call them back and clothe…

— Donald Hall

What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the…

— Rumi

I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people…

— Leigh Newman

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates…

— Emma Lazarus

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then…

— Nawal El Saadawi

I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the…

— Jonah Goldberg

“It is a mistake to think of the expatriate as someone who abdicates, who withdraws and humbles himself, resigned to his miseries,…

— Emil Cioran

Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since…

— P. J. O'Rourke

There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes: Far easier to condemn his injurers,…

— Michelangelo

The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions…

— Adrienne Rich

There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in…

— Sri Aurobindo

“They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in…

— G.K. Chesterton

When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine,…

— Rachel Vincent

The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.

— Elvis Costello

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

— Virginia Woolf

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

— Samuel Hall Lord

Saddam Hussein is dead, and Osama bin Laden is dead. If you’re Moammar Gadhafi, living in exile is starting to sound really…

— Jay Leno

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

— Azar Nafisi

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

— Christopher Hitchens

Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.

— Catherine Camus

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

— George Santayana

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

— Chris Cleave