Exile Quote by Diogenes

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

— Horace

“Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he…

— Gillian Flynn

“He had maintained from the beginning that he had wanted only his freedom. And that was exactly what he had been given. ‘I always…

— C.S. Pacat

“What astonished me greatly was, that though he believed that he was under sentence of death, he made no effort to avail himself of…

— Victor Hugo

The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment…

— Anonymous

“After they stopped torturing him they locked him in the jail cell again and pretended they would forget him... Then, eventually, and unexpectedly, release.…

— Salman Rushdie

“One night the citizens of Rome revolted Against his tyrannies and mad ambition And, when he heard them mutiny, he bolted Alone and sought…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

The one reality was this: He was home. How badly he wanted to stay.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long…

— Carson McCullers

“He’d spent his entire exile schooling himself to face that he would never get what he wanted. People didn’t, sometimes. So you made a…

— Sherwood Smith

“The world was full of such madmen in those days. Imprisonment is not the way to deal with such people; half measures merely feed…

— Iain Pears

“He had returned when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was endangered by…

— Charles Dickens