Exile Quotes

244 quotes by 202 authors

The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people… — Mother Teresa
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to… — Ibn Taymiyyah
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that… — Henry Ward Beecher
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history,… — Paula Gunn Allen
Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better. — Pat Conroy
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. — Thomas Jefferson
Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too… — Daniel Mendelsohn
I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in… — Melissa Etheridge
The end of exile is the end of being. — Angela Carter
If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates oneâ€™s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the… — Joseph Brodsky
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I… — Petrarch
What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we… — Peter Ackroyd
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? — Horace
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any… — Epictetus
Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration… — Unknown Author
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in God, and God… — George W. Bush
But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in… — Thomas Merton

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