Banishment Quotes
22 quotes by 19 authors
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that…
— Teresa of Avila
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did…
— James A. Baldwin
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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there…
— Henry Beston
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Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.
— Euripides
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My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. .…
— Roger Rosenblatt
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The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor…
— Hannah Arendt
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If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my…
— Fawn M. Brodie
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With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki,…
— Pope John Paul II
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Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual…
— Germaine Greer
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To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.
— John Donne
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In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which had…
— John Quincy Adams
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And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self…
— William Shakespeare
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Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts…
— Czeslaw Milosz
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Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
— William Shakespeare
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and…
— Michel de Montaigne
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To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is…
— William Shakespeare
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Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
— William Shakespeare
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This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood her,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Who Wrote These Banishment Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 22 Banishment Quotes as follows: