Left behind Quote by Edward Said

exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native…

— Anonymous

“Our story is not only about exile and oppression and suffering. It is the story of thriving, of triumph, and of great faith. It…

— Daniella Levy

“Exile is a dream of glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward…

— Salman Rushdie

An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.

— Andre Aciman

“Reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family; and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country.”

— M.T Anderson

“For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert…

— Colm Tóibín

“All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression “metaphysical exile” had…

— Emil M. Cioran

“Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“It is a mistake to think of the expatriate as someone who abdicates, who withdraws and humbles himself, resigned to his miseries, his outcast…

— Emil Cioran

“No one goes anywhere alone, least of all into exile—not even those who arrive physically alone, unaccompanied by family, spouse, children, parents, or siblings.…

— Paulo Freire

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a…

— Ismail Kadaré

“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…

— Ivan Klima