Exile Quotes

I am not in exile.

— Chen Guangcheng

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Dreamer in Exile.”

— Teresa Medeiros

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

— Ariel Dorfman

“Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.”

— Roberto Bolaño

As a political exile, you always think you're going home next year.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

— Anonymous

“An exile's only country is his country's literature.”

— Andreï Makine

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

— Suketu Mehta

Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

— Colin Wilson

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

— Simone de Beauvoir

When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to…

— Diogenes

We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted…

— Stanley Kunitz

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

— Don DeLillo

“Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back.”

— George R.R. Martin

The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made…

— John Corapi

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp?

— William Shakespeare

You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.

— George Weinberg

Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

— Madison Smartt Bell

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

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he…

— Albert Camus

“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

For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will…

— Saint Bernard

To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought…

— Paul Shepard

I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be…

— Kwame Dawes

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy…

— Thomas Moore

“That sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to…

— Albert Camus

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

Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally;…

— John Eldredge

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

“As long as there have been men on earth, reflected the Count, there have been men in exile. From primitive tribes to…

— Amor Towles

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance,…

— Ai Weiwei

“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

The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents…

— Michael Chabon

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

— Anonymous

Independence didn't have to be exile.

— Julia Alvarez

All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.

— Jacqueline Carey

Exile is a series of photographs without texts.

— William J. Mitchell

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

— Augusto Pinochet