"And why not death rather than living torment?……" — William Shakespeare

More Banishment Quotes

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• Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is… — Teresa of Avila
• The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to… — James A. Baldwin
• Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from… — Henry Beston
• Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of… — Euripides
• My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they… — Roger Rosenblatt
• The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
• Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems… — Abraham Lincoln
• There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from… — Hannah Arendt
• If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on… — Fawn M. Brodie
• With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what… — Pope John Paul II
• Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation… — Germaine Greer
• To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become. — John Donne

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