No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Praise be to Him who brings our loved ones home from el ghurba (exile)” — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Exiled by death from people we have known, We are reduced again by years, and try To call them back and clothe… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“ 'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home. Places where lonely people can live in exile… — Gina Frangello Copy Share Image
It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile.… — Marc Wallice Copy Share Image
A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our… — Louis of Granada Copy Share Image
“The sight of these closed golden houses with their warmth of life awoke in him a bitter, poignant, strangely mixed emotion of… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We have been striving for the things of the world and in this striving, have thrown ourselves into exile. When enough pain… — Edward Weiss Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“I wish I could punch him in his smug face and show him how undeterred I am by his exile.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I don’t think of myself as a dissident, and I’m more of an immigrant than an exile, — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled. — Cliff Bleszinski Copy Share Image
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“She disciplined her memory to give up counting her losses. She gave her suffering one name: exile.” — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Copy Share Image
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“Exile might satisfy the anger of the living, but it did not appease the dead.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
