Exile Quotes

244 Exile quotes by 202 unique authors

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every… — John Millington Synge
Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order… — Albert Camus
To hope is to send darkest night into exile. — Sri Chinmoy
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile. — C.D. Wright
In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and… — John O'Donohue
Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional — Trinh T. Minh-ha
I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my… — Tom Hayden
For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile. — Theodora
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile. — Juan Goytisolo
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 you’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

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