“Praise be to Him who brings our loved ones home from el ghurba (exile)” — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“The one who can draw your widest smile is also the one who can throw you to the farthest exile” — Sam Haidy Copy Share Image
Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected” — James Wright Copy Share Image
“Whoever severs himself from Mother Earth and her flowing sources of life goes into exile.” — Various Copy Share Image
“It is your final gift to me: this room where I shall bleed and knit, as spinsters do.” — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile. — Samuel Hall Lord Copy Share Image
The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought. — Virginia Woolf 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
And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find… — Melina Marchetta 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
“During this time in spiritual exile, I learned many important things: that we only accept a truth after we have first wholeheartedly… — Paulo Coelho 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
The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time… — Clint Black Copy Share Image
There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj 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
In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil,… — Bruce Chatwin 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
If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally;… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We need Hamas to no longer be in power, whether that's because they're defeated or put into exile. — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be free—when freedom itself feels like foreign terrain?” — Sasa Ljumic Copy Share Image
You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else. — George Weinberg Copy Share Image
We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer… — Isabel Allende 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
