Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional — Trinh T. Minh-ha Copy Share Image
“Should one continue to follow the faith of a group that's cast him out? Shouldn't it stand to reason that if he… — T. A. Miles Copy Share Image
“You too are an exile, I thought. You morn for the broad open steppes where you have room to spread your icy… — Lermontov Copy Share Image
“During this time in spiritual exile, I learned many important things: that we only accept a truth after we have first wholeheartedly… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“This unhoused, exiled Satan was perhaps the heavenly patron of all exiles, all unhoused people, all those who were torn from their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“Though you may be a wanderer, living out your days in exile, home is with you always, in blood-song and bone map,… — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
“Exile is a dream of glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox:… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Living in France means I see the UK in snapshots. There is something quite nice about being in exile and the things… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
Scores of Iraqi exiles met in London to discuss ways to overthrow Saddam Hussein in a grand gathering dubbed the 'Iraqi Military… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Satan understands the power of men and women united in righteousness. He is still stinging from his banishment into eternal exile after… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
