Exile Quotes · Page 5

They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.

— William Edmondstoune Aytoun

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

— Epictetus

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

— Jill Alexander Essbaum

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

— Various

I have loved justice and hated inequity; and therefore I die in exile. [Lat., Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in…

— Pope Gregory VII

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

— James Wright

“The one who can draw your widest smile is also the one who can throw you to the farthest exile”

— Sam Haidy

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills,…

— Stendhal

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all…

— Jack Gleeson

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

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

— Kwame Dawes

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

— Paul Shepard

For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there…

— William Shakespeare

Spiritual models for me are the communities of Tibetans living in exile in India, or the banjars of Bali, which exist in…

— Anne Waldman

I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey,…

— Andrew Sullivan

Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had…

— Pico Iyer

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was…

— Jean Genet

“We have been striving for the things of the world and in this striving, have thrown ourselves into exile. When enough pain…

— Edward Weiss

“Shukhov gazed at the ceiling in silence. Now he didn't know whether he wanted freedom or not. At first he'd longed for…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know…

— Bernice Rubens

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

— Anonymous

While living in exile I have become the loudspeaker for the people of Iran.

— Shirin Ebadi

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

— Jonas Mekas

An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.

— Andre Aciman

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

— Ariel Dorfman

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

— Lajos Kossuth

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

— Richard von Weizsaecker

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

— David Whyte

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

— Nadine Gordimer

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, 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

“The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World. By George Prochnik. Other Press; 390 pages; $27.95”

— Anonymous

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

— Anonymous

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

— Peter Bichsel

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

— Isabel Allende