The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.

— Jacqueline Carey

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

— George Santayana

People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.

— Jane Jacobs

“A place where exiles gather to talk of passion.”

— Joanna Quinn

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

— Chris Cleave

“In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up from a…

— John Lanchester

No matter where I go or what title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles.

— Marco Rubio

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“And I got a strong feeling of the passage of time. Not the time of clouds and sun and rain and the moving stars…

— Merce Rodoreda

“The passage of time makes wizards of us all.”

— Rob Reid

“It's at moment of misfortune that we remember we're all exiles.”

— Jean-Claude Izzo

“On one level, Americans are too distant from the Middle East, too naive to understand its complexities and history. On another, it's the people…

— Robert Baer

I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and I gained…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

“Griffin stared at me, his expression grave. "There are only three things both light and dark exiles have in common. They despise each other,…

— Jessica Shirvington

“We are all exiles from our past , and, as such, we need to recapture it.”

— Esther Salaman