Exile Quote by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

— Marco Rubio

“When a traveler from the future must talk, he does not talk but whimpers. He whispers tortured sounds. He is agonized. For if he…

— Alan Lightman

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

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

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

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

“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

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

Independence didn't have to be exile.

— Julia Alvarez

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

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