Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I must die. I must be imprisoned. I must suffer exile. But must I die groaning? Must I whine as well? Can… — Epictetus 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
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
In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life… — James Salter Copy Share Image
The soul on earth is an immortal guest, Compelled to starve at an unreal feast: A spark, which upward tends by nature's… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“It would be the simplest thing to say, my homeland is where I was born. But when you returned, you found nothing.… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself,… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
“ORESTES: Never shall I see you again. ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes. ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk… — Euripides Copy Share Image
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To hope is to see with the eye of the heart. To hope is to make the heart captain the vital and… — Sri Chinmoy 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
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else. — George Weinberg 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
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The 1980s were such a shock for me. I was really young, obviously, and The Slits were just mutilated. We were totally… — Ari Up Copy Share Image
If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be free—when freedom itself feels like foreign terrain?” — Sasa Ljumic 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
