Exile Quote by Trinh T. Minh-ha Download Open image “Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional” — Trinh T. Minh-ha ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exile Home Secular World
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 Copy Share Image
“...this country would always be populated with presences and absences, presences of absences, the living and the dead. The world as it is would… — Wendell Berry 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
That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Independence can only be obtained and secured by a nation that has its spirit raging with determination: independence or death! — Sukarno Copy Share Image
World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Neither black/red/yellow nor woman but poet or writer. For many of us, the question of priorities remains a crucial issue. Being merely "a writer"… — Trinh T. Minh-ha Copy Share Image
It Went By Me something very beautiful just went by me something not to tell in words in feelings so fragile so wild something… — Trinh T. Minh-ha Copy Share Image
despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. — Trinh T. Minh-ha Copy Share Image
Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep… — Trinh T. Minh-ha Copy Share Image
you and I are close, we intertwine; you may stand on the other side of the hill once in awhile, but you may also… — Trinh T. Minh-ha 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
