Cities Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.

— Juan Goytisolo

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

— Henning Mankell

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

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

— Thomas Carlyle

Independence didn't have to be exile.

— Julia Alvarez

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

— Anonymous

“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

Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional

— Trinh T. Minh-ha

“it is geography—especially in the displaced form of departures, arrivals, farewells, exile, nostalgia, homesickness, belonging, and travel itself—that is at the core of my…

— Edward Said

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

— Edith Wharton

“For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home. Places where lonely people can live in exile of their…

— Gina Frangello