Quotes About Exile

Leave our presence under pain of treason," ordered Mary.

he was expelled from the castle by Moray and the laird and forbidden to return.

When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.

That is what exile meant: no one was coming, no one ever would. There was fear in that knowledge,

Mi exilio podría aplacar la ira de los vivos, pero no la de los difuntos.

The stars turned, and somewhere the moon crept across the sky. When my eyes dragged closed again, he was waiting for me still, covered in blood, his face as pale as bone. Of course he was. No soul wished to be sent early to the endless gloom of our underworld. Exile might satisfy the anger of the living, but it did not appease the dead.

No soul wish to be sent early to the endless gloom of our underworld. Exile might satisfy the anger of the living, but it did not appease the dead.

It was not murder that exiled me, it was my lack of cunning.

La presencia de los otros chicos no me aportaba consuelo alguno: nuestros muertos acuden en pos de su venganza sin considerar la presencia de testigos. En el firmamento cobraron forma las estrellas y la luna ocupó su sitio. Cuando los párpados se me cerraron, él me seguía esperando, cubierto de sangre y blanco como la cal, claro que sí. Nadie desea acabar en la negrura sin fin del aveno antes de tiempo. Mi exilio podría aplacar la ira de los vivos, pero no la de los difuntos.

So he agreed: I would be exiled, and fostered in another man's kingdom. In exchange for my weight in gold, they would rear me to manhood

He yawned, his eyes heavylidded. "what`s your name?" His kingdom was half, a quarter, an eight the size of my father`s, and i had killed a boy and been exiled and still he did not know me. i grounded my jaw shut and would not speak. He asked again, louder: "What`s your name?

No soul wished to be sent early to the endless gloom of our underworld. Exile might satisfy the living, but it does not appease the dead.

You could say that an exile was a person who knew of a country that made all other countries seem strange.

Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?

Out of my ignorance, I called you a homeland and I forgot homelands are taken away.

Later, we'll look up what was recorded in our history about yours in faraway lands. Then we'll ask ourselves, "Was Andalusia here or there? On earth, or only in poems?

El ciego sol, la sed y la fatiga... Por la terrible estepa castellana, al destierro, con doce de los suyos (polvo sudor y hierro), el Cid cabalga.

England had been conquered by the Vikings, and its ancient royal family were in exile – in Normandy.

Aldfrith grew tired of the constant arguments and banished the troublesome bishop from his kingdom for a second time.68

And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.