Exile Quotes

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas.

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.

I am not in exile.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

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

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?

When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.

In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.