Quotes About Exile

This is the true meaning of exile : some insurmountable force that keeps you from going back.

I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.

In exile, the road home lies through language, through dreams.

L'esilio più lungo è l'esilio del cuore L'unico passaggio per il ritorno è l'amore

The longest exile is exile of the heart The only passage for return is love

From the early 1930s, professional purges led so many Jewish and "communist" academics and scientists to emigrate that this led to a major brain drain. By 1933, about 2,000 of the nation's premier artists and writers had fled as well.11 The Nazi periodical The Nettle depicted this emigration as "a triumph for the German nation."12

She explained how, during her years of exile in France, she and her cousin Claudette had shared a private tutor. He was a man in his fifties, a bit of a tippler, who affected literary airs and boasted of being able to recite Virgil's Aeneid in Latin without an accent. The girls had nicknamed him "Monsieur Roquefort

Maybe Cod will grant me a year or two longer with my sweet mother and father and all those I love before I am sent into cruel exile. Many

We have hurt you, yet you love us. We have exiled you, yet you are tied to us. "Though He slay me, yet will I have faith in Him.

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.

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden

Far from offering structures to any history of the past, this kind of desert emptiness and exile is akin to the wilderness traditions of the monastery and the desert fathers.

Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.

the hole left by the moon's tearing-free and monument to her exile;

He understand for a moment, as if in the breeze from an undefined wing passing his face, that the history of all this terrible continent, clear to the Pacific Ocean and the Artic Ice, was this same history of exile and migration, the white man moving in on the Indian, the eastern corporations moving in on the white man, and their incursions with drills and dynamite into the deep seams of the sacred mountains, the sacred land.

There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.

The root of all sin goes back to the garden of Eden. The result of Adam and Eve's disobedience was exile for them and all their descendants after them. Living in exile means living in a perpetual state of disconnection and separation that ultimately leads to death if not remedied. There are four aspects to exile: spiritual, emotional, relational, and physical.

Exile, like memory, may be a place of hope and delusion. But there are rules of light there and principles of darkness. . . . The expatriate is in search of a country, the exile in search of a self. —Eavan Boland, OBJECT LESSONS

And you over there, the one always straying from the rules…we will come for you soon. (heart) You know…you can't live here anymore, don't you? (heart)

It was decreed that we should leave French territory until I was "allowed back," but I had to keep renting Nellcôte as some kind of bond, at $2,400 a week.

What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

Attributing the command to annihilate Canaanites to God can be partly explained by the fact that the Israelites had no concept of Satan prior to the Babylonian exile. Thus all things—life and death, sickness and health, blessing and cursing—were seen as coming directly from the hand of the Sovereign Lord (see Deut. 28; 32:39–42; Ps. 44:1–19; Isa. 13:9–16).

World-Honored One, You must know that in the muddied age Evil monks who do not understand The Buddha's skillful means— How the Dharma is taught In accord with What is appropriate— Will frown upon and abuse us. Repeatedly we will be driven out And exiled far from stupas and monasteries. Remembering the Buddha's orders, We will endure all such evils.

You told your mother." "Of course I did. You're not some shameful secret I'm going to hide." "No, I'm a disgraced exile who had the audacity to turn down the most beloved son of House Krahr." He considered it. "Not the most beloved. My cousin is much more adorable than me. He is two and his hair is curly.