Quotes About Exile

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law."

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

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

No longer an American, Benedict Arnold was never accepted as an Englishman, either.

The postexilic people were no saints, but they did respond to the challenges of the prophets and the theocratic leaders. The prophetic works (Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, and Joel) together with Chronicles and Ezra—Nehemiah attest to the radical transformation of God's people after the Exile.

Unhappy Land, whose Blessings tempt the Sword. Eclogue the Fourth. Agib and Secander; or the Fugitives

In the political settlement that followed, Tipu's sons were despatched to exile in the fort of Vellore and most of the best lands of the state of Mysore were divided between the Company and the Nizam of Hyderabad. The rump was returned to the Hindu Wadyar dynasty whose throne Haidar and Tipu had usurped. A five-year-old child from the dynasty was found living 'in a state of misery … in kind of stable with sheds attached to

In the end he slunk out of Normandy in December 1203, like a thief in the night.

Once, while serving time in exile at a Siberian prison camp, Dostoyevsky developed the theory that the worst torture one could possibly devise would be to force someone to endlessly perform an obviously pointless task. Even

Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot.

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

The moment you've uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you're already turning towards home.

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.