Exile Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

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.

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

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.

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?

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.

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

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

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

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.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

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.

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

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

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

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

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

I am not in exile.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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