In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“This unhoused, exiled Satan was perhaps the heavenly patron of all exiles, all unhoused people, all those who were torn from their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile.… — Marc Wallice Copy Share Image
God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our… — Louis of Granada Copy Share Image
“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church:… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone:… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Lev Davidovich contemplated the Norwegian landscape and, as he would write shortly afterward, made a silent tally of his exile, to confirm… — Leonardo Padura Fuentes Copy Share Image
“For the first time it strikes me that it must be hard to spend your life in exile and finally win your… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional — Trinh T. Minh-ha Copy Share Image
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father. — Euripides Copy Share Image
“I wish I could punch him in his smug face and show him how undeterred I am by his exile.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“She disciplined her memory to give up counting her losses. She gave her suffering one name: exile.” — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Copy Share Image
... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don’t think of myself as a dissident, and I’m more of an immigrant than an exile, — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled. — Cliff Bleszinski Copy Share Image
