Exile Quote by Chris Cleave Download Open image “We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.” — Chris Cleave ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exile Immigration Reality Refugee Summer
We sure didn't feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were - my father and mother left everything behind to come here… — Dara Khosrowshahi Copy Share Image
“At a time when there are more refugees than ever, the rich world has turned its back on them. Our myths and religions are… — Ben Rawlence Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a kid, as a refugee in Egypt, every day, there was always a hope that we'd get to leave… — Luol Deng Copy Share Image
When we were in Egypt, we were refugees. My family and I were homeless. For five years, out of all of the countries in… — Luol Deng Copy Share Image
Paradise is our native country, and we in this world be as exiles and strangers — Richard Greenham Copy Share Image
There are many war refugees and three times as many climate refugees. All of them are people who can no longer live where they… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
“I may have fled out of fear, but I carry with me dreams; dreams of a community that thrives on understanding, compassion, and inclusion.… — Hagir Elsheikh Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions, and policemen-… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“I smiled down at Charlie, and I understood that he would be free now even if I would not. In this way the life… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Yu only be livin one life, darlin. Don't matter yu don't uh-preshie-ate part of it, cos it don't stop bein part of yu.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him… — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess lessons to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
