Exile Quote by Colin Wilson Download Open image “Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.” — Colin Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exile Home Life Life itself Way Way home
The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
As human beings we have this immediate gateway - you’ve just to articulate exactly the way that you’re exiled, exactly the way that you… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not… — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure. — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
Life is a one way road. You can choose to keep moving forward to new territory. Or you can choose to go in reverse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mind and body have taken the journey, but the real home place is your own heart. It is infinite and so wherever you go,… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“Man is not a 'fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant'. He changed drastically when he developed 'divided consciousness' to cope with… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“As to Gurdjieff's power to renew his own energies, its essence had been understood by psychologists of the nineteenth century, decades before the age… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“There is in Shaw, as in Gurdjieff and Nietzsche, a recognition of the immense effort of Will that is necessary to express even a… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer. — Colin Wilson 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
