I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
An exile, ill in heart and frame,-- A wanderer, weary of the way;-- A stranger, without love's sweet claim On any heart,… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads. — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.” — Peggy Kopman-Owens Copy Share Image
Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot… — Walter Duranty Copy Share Image
“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
“It is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we… — John of Ruysbroeck Copy Share Image
“She was amazed Silveny had even let them get close enough to attach the reins. Clearly she needed to teach the glittering… — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
“He’d spent his entire exile schooling himself to face that he would never get what he wanted. People didn’t, sometimes. So you… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
I must die. I must be imprisoned. I must suffer exile. But must I die groaning? Must I whine as well? Can… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Lev Davidovich contemplated the Norwegian landscape and, as he would write shortly afterward, made a silent tally of his exile, to confirm… — Leonardo Padura Fuentes Copy Share Image
The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone:… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Of all the events leading up to the departure for the shore, though, was one that had been months in the making.… — Don Jacobson 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
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
“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
