Exile Quote by Chantal Akerman

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

— Mahmoud Darwish

I'm Jewish, but I'm totally not.

— Sarah Silverman

I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.

— Peter Eisenman

I am a Jew, and I'm convinced that Israel is the homeland.

— Neil Sedaka

Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.

— Yair Lapid

Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.

— A. B. Yehoshua

For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call…

— Benjamin Franklin

I'm not completely Jewish, if you know what I mean. I know people want me to be. My father is Jewish. My mother isn't.

— Julian Edelman

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from…

— David Ben-Gurion

The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he…

— Delmore Schwartz

The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Being Jewish is a culture and a religion; we have food, music, and land specific to us.

— Ari Shaffir