Exile Quotes

244 Exile quotes by 202 unique authors

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 one’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
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a witness of resurrection… — William Stringfellow
One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a… — Nancy Mitford
When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of… — N. T. Wright
Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled. — Cliff Bleszinski
I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in… — Saint Patrick
I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not… — Saint Patrick
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. — Henning Mankell
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile… — Walter Duranty
Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile. — Silvio Berlusconi
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to die,… — Ariel Dorfman

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