Exile Quotes
244 quotes by 202 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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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
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The end of exile is the end of being.
— Angela Carter
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If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the…
— Joseph Brodsky
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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
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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
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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
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What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
— Horace
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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