Exile Quotes

244 Exile quotes by 202 unique authors

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 “exile” 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
To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us. — N. T. Wright
In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be obscure,… — Jonathan Martin
Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances… — Rolf Potts
The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made for heaven, and… — John Corapi
It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism.… — John F. Kerry
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. — Stefan Zweig
Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most… — G. H. Hardy
Scores of Iraqi exiles met in London to discuss ways to overthrow Saddam Hussein in a grand gathering dubbed the 'Iraqi Military Alliance Meeting.' Of… — Jon Stewart
Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to… — Michael Ondaatje
I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing. — Suketu Mehta
So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God. — Saint Patrick
I don’t think of myself as a dissident, and I’m more of an immigrant than an exile, — Ha Jin
Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All… — Clay Shirky
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the… — Michelangelo
EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. — Ambrose Bierce
We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as far as we… — D. H. Lawrence
The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory… — Elie Wiesel
Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to… — William Shakespeare

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