Behinds Quote by Edwidge Danticat

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

— Mahmoud Darwish

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

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into…

— Joseph Brodsky

Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

— Henning Mankell

Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave…

— Roberto Bolano

The end of exile is the end of being.

— Angela Carter

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep…

— James Salter

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

— Suketu Mehta

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

You can see exile as loss, and then it will be a loss for you. You can treat it as opportunity and then all…

— Pico Iyer

Departure is a new beginning for those who depart and those who remain behind.

— Princess Tutu

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

— Ariel Dorfman