Exiles Quotes

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“A place where exiles gather to talk of passion.”

— Joanna Quinn

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

— Núria Añó

“It's at moment of misfortune that we remember we're all exiles.”

— Jean-Claude Izzo

All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.

— Jacqueline Carey

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

People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.

— Jane Jacobs

All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

— Janet Frame

No matter where I go or what title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles.

— Marco Rubio

“We are all exiles from our past , and, as such, we need to recapture it.”

— Esther Salaman

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and…

— Mahmoud Darwish

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that…

— Camille Paglia

“There's hundreds of corners on this island, Crystal said. And there are thousands of us. Exiles from the heartland without a heart.…

— Tom Spanbauer

Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a…

— David Novak

She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in…

— Andy Garcia

I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes…

— Salman Rushdie

“In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up…

— John Lanchester

“A person can only be born in one place.However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in…

— Anonymous

“they are a most depressed and depressing group, for they are all, you see, exiles or refugees or travelers between the worlds…

— Michael Moorcock

“Griffin stared at me, his expression grave. "There are only three things both light and dark exiles have in common. They despise…

— Jessica Shirvington

“Many exiles leave the mainstream church and engage in the kinds of things we’ve looked at already: living an authentic life, struggling…

— Michael Frost

“On one level, Americans are too distant from the Middle East, too naive to understand its complexities and history. On another, it's…

— Robert Baer

“And what, exactly, does this Band of Exiles plan to do? Host events? Organise party-planning committees?' Lucien's metal eye clicked faintly and…

— Sarah J. Maas