Exile Quotes

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.

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 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.

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?

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.

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 frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. 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.

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

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.

I am not in exile.

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.

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.

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.

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

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