Exile Quotes

244 Exile quotes by 202 unique authors

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache.… — George Orwell
Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood… — Roberto Bolano
I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival;… — Andrew Sullivan
Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph,… — Thomas Cahill
And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi of the Exiles… — Melina Marchetta
How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her. Or the… — Melina Marchetta
It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city,… — Suketu Mehta
The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his… — Ursula K. Le Guin
We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk… — Isak Dinesen
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place,… — Edward Said
Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in… — Elie Wiesel
Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile? — Arthur Rimbaud
We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life. — Curtis Sittenfeld
There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not… — John F. Kennedy
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life.… — Oscar Wilde
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are… — Isabel Allende
Only the mind cannot be sent into exile. — Unknown Author
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution,… — Ashwin Sanghi
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went… — Lupita Nyong'o
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went… — Lupita Nyong'o
God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life… — Saint Ambrose
Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and… — Jack Gleeson
Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the… — Elliott Abrams
Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the… — Antonio Munoz Molina

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