Quotes About Exile

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression.

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

If Judaism was going to survive, the rabbis would have to take their religion into their own hands and shape it so that it could deal with the reality of exile. The same sense of independence helps explain why the rabbis adopted a high degree of tolerance for each other's opinions on the meaning of God's laws. If the rabbis could argue with God, as they sometimes did, they could certainly argue with other rabbis.

gobierno kuwaití se salió con la suya. En cuestión de meses deportó a más de 200.000 palestinos. Otros les seguirían más tarde. La única diferencia era que muchos de ellos viajaron al norte, hacia Iraq, en autobuses de la Cruz Roja que de verdad había fletado dicha organización humanitaria.

In 388 B.C. Plato urged the city fathers of Athens to exile all poets and storytellers. They are a threat to society

Adams had spent most of his vice presidency exiled in the Senate, casting a record thirty-one tiebreaking votes. Of the number-two post, he said wearily but indelibly that it was "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

He railed against the baleful precedent that would be set if the legislature exiled an entire category of people without hearings or trials. If that happened, "no man can be safe, nor know when he may be the innocent victim of a prevailing faction. The name of liberty applied to such a government would be a mockery of common sense.

Alone, alienated, and often far from his family, the exile turned to the mosque, where he found companionship and the consolation of religion. Islam provided the element of commonality. It was more than a faith -- it was an identity.

When did it come to Davy Land that exile is a country of shifting borders, hard to quit yet hard to endure, no matter your wide shoulders, no matter your toughened heart?

Acudieron de setenta y cuatro naciones diferentes. Los dispersados, los exiliados, los repudiados se congregaban en el único rincón de la Tierra donde la palabra «judío» no era un insulto.

Noi tutti siamo esiliati entro lo cornici di uno strano quadro. Chi sa questo, viva da grande, Gli altri sono insetti.

You too are an exile, I thought. You morn for the broad open steppes where you have room to spread your icy wings. Here you feel stifled and constricted, like an eagle that cries and beats against the bars of its iron cage.

Adiós a ti del ruso sucia patria nación de encomenderos y de esclavos. Adiós a esas guerreras azuladas. Adiós al pueblo por ellas maniatado. Quizá yo, tras el Cáucaso erguido, esconderme podré de los tiranos, de su ojo que todo lo registra, de su oído que nada escucha en vano.

The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown: The Lion beat the Unicorn all around the town. Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown: Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town.

The French indiscriminately interned any women who had at any time had anything to do with Central Europe.

As an advocate of the Family Systems model, I would say that's because you have acknowledged the piece of yourself that you were uncomfortable with, the Exile, resulting in your true Self being once more centered and in control.

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for pain that he sobbed ; it was because he was all alone, because he had been driven out, alone, into this skeleton world of rocks and moonlight.

I'm going to be sent to Iceland.

Tendré que seguir lavando las calderas? ¿Tendré que seguir comiendo bambúes? Como salidas de las entrañas, las interrogaciones se apretaban, cobrando, en coro, el desgarrado gemir de los pueblos llevados al exilio para construir mausoleos, torres o interminables murallas. ¡Oh, padre, mi padre, cuan largo es el camino! ¡Oh, padre, mi padre cuan largo es el penar!

Perché è così che ti frega, la vita. Ti piglia quando hai ancora l'anima addormentata e ti semina dentro un'immagine, o un odore, o un suono che poi non te lo togli più. E quella lì era la felicità. Lo scopri dopo, quand'è troppo tardi. E già sei, per sempre, un esule: a migliaia di chilometri da quell'imagine, da quel suono, da quell'odore. Alla deriva.»

There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries.