Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be… — Sheldon B. Kopp 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… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Ruefully, nobody perceives me as exceptionally gifted, intelligent, handsome, or physically strong. My sense of alienation stems from an inferiority complex, depressive… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“and one knows, after a long time of solitude, after the many steps taken away from one's kind, toward the kingdom of… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“I,” he said, a faint note of derision in his voice, “am the least favored scion of our ruling house, House Mara… — P.J. Fox Copy Share Image
I thought of New York as a free city, like one of those prewar nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“As to what that exile and that longing for reunion meant, Rieux had no idea. But as he walked ahead, jostled on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I've never heard of anybody getting rid of their prized Exile postcards, much less actually writing on them and sending them through… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“What the eyes don’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.’ Well, I say that there isn’t an ounce of truth in it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
What can you do with me? My jannah is in my heart! If you take me to jail, I will make zikr… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
“It would be the simplest thing to say, my homeland is where I was born. But when you returned, you found nothing.… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
![“In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and artificial dull and deaden the human spirit [] In contrast, the Beautiful offers us an invitation to order, coherence, and unity. When these needs are met, the…” quote by John O'Donohue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d37/john-o-donohue-1919_beautiful_in-turning-away-from-beauty-we-turn-away_625329.jpg)
