I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my… — Albert Camus 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
“For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain… — Alan Hirsch 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
“Liberation as an intellectual mission, born in the resistance and opposition to the confinements and ravages of imperialism, has now shifted from… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the… — Maimonides 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
I have been clear in my position for quite a while, but the Chinese have not responded. Therefore, we are now in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“Plant gardens in your exile, work for the good of the city, and don't be so caught up in the "not yet"… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire.… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“It appears that we've given up on the long-range view. That we've decided not to think about consequences—about cause and effect. Maybe… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Let the Art be brought back only for the good of the world. If it isn the hand of one who would… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Where there is no speech we must live in despair. And exile is first of all where our speech has been silenced… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“she'd figured out how to steer Silveny by teaching her simple commands like left and right and if you dump me into… — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties,… — Antonio Munoz Molina 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
...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Books were my church but even more my native land, my place of refuge, my DP camp. I was an exile early… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless… — Thomas Merton 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
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