It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
“I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“And I tell her about his description because I want her to know what I now know, which is that the place… — Carola Perla Copy Share Image
The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the… — Hal Lindsey Copy Share Image
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how… — Chang-Rae Lee 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
I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“Knight, of course, felt that anyone's willing assistance tainted the whole thing. Either you are hidden or you're not, no middle ground.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I… — Mario Benedetti 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
On the August night in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attention and infamy of our… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I don’t think of myself as a dissident, and I’m more of an immigrant than an exile, — Ha Jin Copy Share Image