Quotes About Exile

Sad brightness": the sadness of my exile, of the waste I have made of my life; the brightness of God's presence and forgiveness, the joy of the recovered desire for God, the peace of the recovered home. Such is the climate of lenten worship; such is its first and general impact on my soul.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

L'exilé est à la fois, et non pas successivement, émigrant et immigrant. Il ne cesse de l'être, revendiquant et impliquant deux territorialités pour en dessiner une troisième, ce qui n'est pas autorisé au migrant dont la saisie institutionnelle neutralise le parcours entre départ et arrivée. (p. 107)

Si aujourd'hui comme hier, la condition humaine, parce que trop éthérée, ne suffit pas à garantir le droit de survivre, peut-être la condition exilique, qui quoique mobile garde pour ainsi dire les pieds sur terre, le permettra-t-elle. Encore faut-il en admettre l'existence. (p. 17)

I'm out of Russia and have no plans to go back.

My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity.

People that lie to me generally get banished or vanished to the planet Pluto in my mind.

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

C est quand notre milieu (naturel ou culturel) commence a nous faire du mal qu on s avise de son existence, et plus il nous decouvrira ses fragilites, plus nous y aurons mal. Ainsi decouvre-t-on sa langue quand, a l etranger, on ne peut plus la parler - ou qu on avait une patrie, quand on est exile.

The exile is a person who, having lost a loved one, keeps searching for the face he loves in every new face and, forever deceiving himself, thinks he has found it.

É com os escritores imaginários que eu aprendo o que quero fazer. Por exemplo, Stephen Dedalus ou Nick Adams. Leio suas vidas como um modo de entender do que se trata. Não tenho interesse em me inspirar nos escritores "reais". O desprezo de Dedalus pela família, pela religião e pela pátria será o meu. Silêncio, exílio e astúcia.

Spinoza was introduced to the Quaker leader in the Netherlands, William Ames, and was described by Peter Serrarius as a "Jew who by the Jews hath been cast out.

You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.

It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet? You think it's funny to send me this this ? this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! Take him back!

Drive them out utterly, so they may never return and prey upon our people.

O! a kissLong as my exile, sweet as my revenge!

For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.

Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.

Eating the bitter bread of banishment.

Where'er I wander, boast of this I can,Though banish'd, yet a true-born Englishman.

En verdad es posible ser tan desdichado, estar tan aislado como para no tener un refugio para apartarse y esconderse de la gente

What's a house when you've lost a country?' she says with a sigh.