Exile Quotes

244 Exile quotes by 202 unique authors

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile. — Peter Bichsel
I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile. — Pope Gregory VII
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. — Nadine Gordimer
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A… — Emma Lazarus
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. — Lois McMaster Bujold
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put… — Hal Lindsey
Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or… — Alexander Pope
How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler
The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel. — Elvis Costello
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain… — Martha Gellhorn
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. — Ursula K. Le Guin
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from… — Rachel Cusk
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland… — Mahmoud Darwish
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room. — Mahmoud Darwish
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. — Don DeLillo
Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the… — Ismail Haniyeh
The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. — Christopher Hitchens
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with… — Rafael Nadal
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for… — Camille Paglia
Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel.… — Shimon Peres
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden… — Marcel Proust

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