Exile Quotes

244 Exile quotes by 202 unique authors

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city. — C.S. Lewis
It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way — Robertson Davies
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is… — Khalil Gibran
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of… — Primo Levi
We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of… — Stanley Kunitz
Getting cut off from the knights' magic rock also required a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom. (Those of you in the Hushlands,… — Brandon Sanderson
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does… — Epictetus
All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the… — Janet Frame
Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward… — Salman Rushdie
Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free. — John Piper
Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on… — Marianne Williamson
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves. — Chris Cleave
For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half… — Walker Percy
Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home? — Emile M. Cioran
In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is… — Wendell Berry
When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a… — Rachel Vincent
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or… — Stendhal
Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally; they urge him… — John Eldredge
...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more.… — Knut Hamsun
The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon… — Cormac McCarthy
Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back. — Colin Wilson
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. — Alexis de Tocqueville
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile… — Annie Dillard
Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth. — Michael Ondaatje

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