Exile Quote by Simone de Beauvoir Download Open image “The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.” — Simone de Beauvoir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exile Hope No hope Return Whole world World
Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world. — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge. — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference. — John Banville Copy Share Image
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him… — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess lessons to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
“The growth of his power and fame was matched, in my imagination, by the degree of the punishment I would have liked to inflict… — Nabokov i Tyrants Destroyed i Copy Share Image
I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
