Exile Quotes

244 Exile quotes by 202 unique authors

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future. — Lajos Kossuth
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified… — Edith Wharton
New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left. — John Updike
...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower. — Robert Fuller Murray
The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home. — David Whyte
An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile. — James Joyce
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. — Rudyard Kipling
I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion. — Ezra Pound
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars… — Jean Genet
Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over… — Jose Marti
The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either… — Paul Theroux
Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in. — Azar Nafisi
I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom.… — George Papandreou
Independence didn't have to be exile. — Julia Alvarez
Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile;… — John of Ruysbroeck
Sometimes people have sympathized with me because long years of my life were spent in jail and in exile. Well, those years ... were a… — Sukarno
Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile. — Samuel Hall Lord
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the… — Antony Jay
The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid… — Clint Black
Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress. — Ariel Dorfman
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile. — Ariel Dorfman
In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world. — Jean-Claude Duvalier
We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles. — Augusto Pinochet
I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself. — Dree Hemingway
To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead;… — Eliphas Levi

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