I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be… — John Piper Copy Share Image
You can see exile as loss, and then it will be a loss for you. You can treat it as opportunity and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God. — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead… — Linda Barnes Copy Share Image
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Exile is a dream of glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox:… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Shukhov gazed at the ceiling in silence. Now he didn't know whether he wanted freedom or not. At first he'd longed for… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know… — Bernice Rubens Copy Share Image
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
