Quotes About Exile

Sa zadovoljstvom mislim na Andri?a...i kada bih mogao da kažem u samo jednoj re?i šta me to tera da pobegnem iz Bosne, rekao bih ti: mržnja.

I have forgiven you. Nevertheless, begone!

I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.

Qué es este exilio sino otro comienzo?

Ese desenlace natural, ese final obligatorio que es la muerte, tiene siempre algo de regreso. Vuelta a la tierra nutricia; vuelta a la matriz de barro, de nuestro barro, que nunca va a ser igual a los otros barros del mundo. La muerte en el exilio es aparentemente la negación del regreso, y éste es quizá su lado más oscuro.

En los primeros tiempos el exilio era, entre otras cosas, el duro hueso de vivir distante. Ahora es también el de morirse lejos.

Because we are refugees of war now, people who left their lands behind. We have nothing, so we get to say nothing.

escribir siempre sería una renuncia. Un exilio. Una manera de fingir que uno sale al encuentro del otro cuando en realidad rumia, digiere, regurgita, mastica, relame, traga, se nutre, defeca sus propias e intransferibles palabras...

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.

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism.

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'--not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite), but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style.

Custodial sentences were not the penalties of choice in the ancient world, prisons being little more than places where criminals were held before execution. Fines, exile and death made up the usual repertoire of Roman punishment.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, for example, who more than two millennia later gave his name to the American city of Cincinnati, is supposed to have returned from semi-exile in the 450s BCE to become dictator and lead Roman armies to victory against their enemies before nobly retiring straight back to his farm without seeking further political glory.

Fines, exile and death made up the usual repertoire of Roman punishment. If Caesar really did advocate life imprisonment in 63 BCE, then it was probably the first time in Western history that this was mooted as an alternative to the death penalty, without success.

Russians suspected of liberal tendencies were watched, and upon the slightest pretext sent to Siberia,

During a July 1942 visit to Portugal and Spain, Schellenberg conducted negotiations with a Brazilian exile, Plínio Salgado, who promised great things for the German cause, but delivered nothing. The

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

And in terms of identity, surely one could argue versions of such a crisis have been with us for a very long time. There is nothing new in exile. It is as ancient as the notion of home.

Wherever he was, whatever exile he condemned her to, he knew he would hear those footsteps behind him for the rest of his life - tripping over corpses.

How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her. Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.

Ave Seria um pássaro No sono das asas ondulava toda a solidão do céu Terrestre, só a fugitiva sombra Paisagem nenhuma lhe dava abrigo Pousado, o corpo de si mesmo se exilava Nos ensinava a deslumbrância da viagem a nós que só na morte olharemos os céus de frente

El libro es pues la morada "natural" de los exiliados, su consuelo. Y, más allá de eso, una oportunidad de transformar el exilio en ventaja, de darle valor creativo.

5. Rapunzel is raised by an evil enchantress to punish her parents for a. exiling the enchantress from their kingdom b. stealing some plants from the enchantress's garden c. having the fairest daughter in all the land d. not taking their daughter to get a haircut when she clearly needs one

I can't stop writing you. You, the pleasure which exiled me for awhile. You of the whom dream, the bell swinging with echoes of two or three notes as if from another bird, before the major echoes from the same voice. I did not intentionally walk shores of light. I said my heart is sick because it is not full …