Exiles Quotes

38 Exiles quotes by 35 unique authors

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles. — Joyce Carol Oates
They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel. — William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that… — Henry Ward Beecher
But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in… — Thomas Merton
So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles,… — Charlton Heston
To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and… — Paul Shepard
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought. — Virginia Woolf
Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower. — Robert Fuller Murray
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
We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles. — Augusto Pinochet
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
How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
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
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
No matter where I go or what title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles. — Marco Rubio
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of… — Salman Rushdie
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight… — Maya Angelou
They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose. — Albert Camus
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and… — Michel de Montaigne
Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who… — Khalil Gibran
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

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