“Living here below is wearisome to me, my dear Father. It is such a bitter torment to me to live in exile… — Diane Allen Copy Share Image
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“That sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
“Bear patiently your exile and the dryness of your mind. The time will come when I will make you forget these painful… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got… — Lupita Nyong'o 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
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness.… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
“For the first time it strikes me that it must be hard to spend your life in exile and finally win your… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Of the 2,000,000 Armenians in Turkey in 1914, one million have been slaughtered, and the survivors only 130,000 remain in Turkey and… — Herbert Adams Gibbons Copy Share Image
I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't… — Ma Jian 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
How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important… — Anonymous 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 went upstairs to my office. Lay in the dark among my books. The only comforting thing I have. An exile in… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you… — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze.… — Juvenal 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
Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Oscar and I are very close, and yet I know that part of him is still withdrawn, even from me. As though… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
“For a boy who went out to it from the dulness of some country rectory, from a neighbourhood where a flower show… — Saki Copy Share Image
An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my… — John Howard Payne Copy Share Image
Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are… — William Shakespeare 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
“Sophie smiled. “Yeah, I think you whined the entire way.” “We all have our gifts. And speaking of whining—” “No whining in… — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
“How ironic that when they’d been married, she’d never thought of growing old with him. Yet now, years after the annulment, she… — Sherry Thomas 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