In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower. — Robert Fuller Murray Copy Share Image
Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a… — Whittaker Chambers 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
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee… — Ismail Haniyeh 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
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills,… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The city was lovely. There could be no place in the world to which he belonged so completely. That was why he'd… — Daniel Alarcón Copy Share Image
“During this period of his life, Burroughs was seeking a physical utopia, a place where he could live and act as he… — Greg A. Mullins Copy Share Image
So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“As long as there have been men on earth, reflected the Count, there have been men in exile. From primitive tribes to… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and… — G. H. Hardy 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
Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on… — T.S. Mathews Copy Share Image
I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to… — Paula Vogel Copy Share Image
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel,… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption. — Anonymous 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
In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world. — Jean-Claude Duvalier Copy Share Image
“The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World. By George Prochnik. Other Press; 390 pages; $27.95” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
