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
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
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
I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes… — Maya Angelou 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
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes: Far easier to condemn his injurers,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think of the expatriate as someone who abdicates, who withdraws and humbles himself, resigned to his miseries,… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I never considered myself as somebody in exile because, different to my father who, yes, was in exile because he left Haiti… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine,… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the… — Aleksandar Hemon 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
“ '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
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Where there is no speech we must live in despair. And exile is first of all where our speech has been silenced… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“Plant gardens in your exile, work for the good of the city, and don't be so caught up in the "not yet"… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“Let the Art be brought back only for the good of the world. If it isn the hand of one who would… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire.… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“It appears that we've given up on the long-range view. That we've decided not to think about consequences—about cause and effect. Maybe… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“When did it come to Davy Land that exile is a country of shifting borders, hard to quit yet hard to endure,… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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