Exile Quotes

244 quotes by 202 authors

So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles,… — Charlton Heston
The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing… — Mary McCarthy
This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we… — Paula Vogel
I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents… — Daniel Ellsberg
Saddam Hussein is dead, and Osama bin Laden is dead. If youâ€™re Moammar Gadhafi, living in exile is starting to sound really good. — Jay Leno
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. — Nancy Horan
It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance… — Alasdair MacIntyre
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd… — John Wyndham
To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and… — Paul Shepard
So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man,… — Sheldon B. Kopp
Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are… — Thomas Merton
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty. — Khalil Gibran
Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not,… — Farid al-Din Attar
The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations… — Unknown Author
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is… — Julius Wellhausen
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire… — Ayn Rand
No elderly person should be like an â€œexileâ€ in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society. — Pope Francis
What can you do with me? My jannah is in my heart! If you take me to jail, I will make zikr of Allah. If… — Ibn Taymiyyah
Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on… — Eugene H. Peterson
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought. — Virginia Woolf

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