Exile Quote by 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

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

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

— Horace

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

— Martin Buber

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

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

“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

I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign places. I…

— Pico Iyer

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

— Suketu Mehta

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

— Anne Hutchinson

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

— Isabel Allende