Exile Quotes · Page 4

“You say exile, I say extended holiday.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.”

— Núria Añó

'The Exile' covers approximately the first third of 'Outlander'.

— Diana Gabaldon

For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

— Theodora

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

— Martin Buber

The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.

— Elizabeth I

Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.

— Pierre Corneille

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

— Christopher Hitchens

Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.

— Catherine Camus

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

— George Santayana

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

— Chris Cleave

“What does it mean to be free—when freedom itself feels like foreign terrain?”

— Sasa Ljumic

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

— C.D. Wright

We need Hamas to no longer be in power, whether that's because they're defeated or put into exile.

— Josh Shapiro

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

— Richard von Weizsaecker

Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint,…

— Alexander Pope

We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen…

— Haile Selassie

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

“Sophie smiled. “Yeah, I think you whined the entire way.” “We all have our gifts. And speaking of whining—” “No whining in…

— Shannon Messenger

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into…

— Ariel Dorfman

The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time…

— Clint Black

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

— William Shakespeare

An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my…

— John Howard Payne

If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a…

— John Perry Barlow

An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence.…

— Oscar Wilde

I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like…

— Khaled Hosseini

This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to…

— Paula Vogel

Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since…

— P. J. O'Rourke

There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes: Far easier to condemn his injurers,…

— Michelangelo

There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in…

— Sri Aurobindo

The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions…

— Adrienne Rich

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

— Lajos Kossuth

If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.

— Ma Jian

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index…

— Nadine Gordimer

The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.

— David Whyte

EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.

— Ambrose Bierce

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

— Saint Patrick

“Whoever severs himself from Mother Earth and her flowing sources of life goes into exile.”

— Various

“It is your final gift to me: this room where I shall bleed and knit, as spinsters do.”

— Jill Alexander Essbaum

“We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected”

— James Wright