Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine,… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard… — Annie Dillard 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
“Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back.” — George R.R. Martin 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
“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
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
“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption. — Anonymous 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 Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile. — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image