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

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes. — Ovid

It's the exile's dilemma. The home they yearn for is never the home to which they return. If they return. — Lauren Willig

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I know how men in exile feed on dreams — Aeschylus

Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption. — Baal Shem Tov

Disdain is a natural condition of the mind in exile; — Stacy Schiff

New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left. — John Updike

The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy. — Elizabeth I

To hope is to send darkest night into exile. — Sri Chinmoy

Everyone is born a king; some people die in exile — Oscar Wilde

I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile. — Dalai Lama

Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you. — Golshifteh Farahani

While living in exile I have become the loudspeaker for the people of Iran. — Shirin Ebadi

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war. — Hiam Abbass

An exile's only country is his country's literature. — Andrei Makine

Just because I haven't found anyone to give my heart to, doesn't mean I don't know how to go about doing it properly when I do. — Donna Hatch

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free. — John Piper

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself. — Dree Hemingway

Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile. — Silvio Berlusconi

Christianity has its roots in the profound sense of exile. — Philip H. Pfatteicher

Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional — Trinh T. Minh-ha

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, And I sentenced them to stay at home. — Diogenes Of Sinope

Exile is a series of photographs without texts. — William J. Mitchell

These long-haired girls seemed to glide above all that was happening around them, tragic and separate. Like royalty in exile. I — Emma Cline

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. — G.K. Chesterton

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile. — G.K. Chesterton

It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. — Nancy Horan

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment. — Marco Rubio

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life. — Curtis Sittenfeld

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

When a continent is poisoned by lies, truth must be an exile. — Jason Goodwin

Exile has enabled me to discover the rest of the world, to meet other peoples, to get to know other traditions. Nothing could be more valuable. — Dalai Lama XIV

Some women's arms are placed of exile; others are a native land. — Amin Maalouf

This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile. — Peggy Kopman-Owens

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile. — Milan Kundera

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

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget. — Ovid

Praise be to Him who brings our loved ones home from el ghurba (exile) — Susan Abulhawa

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile. — James Joyce

If there is anything of which I am certain in life it is that I shall never exchange the liberty of my exile for the vile parody of home. — Vladimir Nabokov

I have forsaken her for a place I will never belong, but will always remain under her spell, forever to be, a child of my motherland. — B.G. Bowers

If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth. — Thomas A Kempis

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile? — Albert Camus

Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better. — Pat Conroy

Pilgrims were people in scientific exile. — Anne Carson

We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected — James Wright

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

Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth. — Michael Ondaatje

Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. — Juvenal

I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile. — Kahlil Gibran

And if the City falls and one survives
he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile
he shall be the City — Zbigniew Herbert

Earth seemed a place of exile and I dreamt of heaven. — John Beevers

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile. — Samuel Hall Lord

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure. — James A. Michener

Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.

Ali — Davis Miller

My brothers are retro-refugees in the new exile of the asylum-seekers' hostel. — Lidija Dimkovska

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. — Stefan Zweig

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

Life's harrowing echo only to be faded into exiled loneliness — Munia Khan

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future. — Lajos Kossuth

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile. — C.D. Wright

We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection. — Stanley Kunitz

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance. — Richard Von Weizsaecker

An exile, ill in heart and frame,
A wanderer, weary of the way;
A stranger, without love's sweet claim
On any heart, go where I may! — Frances Sargent Osgood

Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile? — Arthur Rimbaud

The plant that's been uprooted has only courage to hold it up. — Marty Rubin

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

Alex Robichek had survived their Italian exile; that Uncle Richard and Aunt Roszi were safe in Sacramento. — Edith Hahn Beer

I am not in exile. — Chen Guangcheng

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea.
You can kill a man, but not an idea. — Benazir Bhutto

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile. — Ariel Dorfman

Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer. — Roberto Bolano

This, too, shall pass. Life is many days. This ends."

--The Fruit of Exile — Joe Churchwell

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. — Nadine Gordimer

Silence, exile, cunning and so on ... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. — Don DeLillo

A kiss, long as my exile, as sweet as my revenge. — William Shakespeare

In his youth, Jon Connington had shared the disdain most knights had for bowmen, but he had grown wiser in exile. — George R R Martin

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. — Lord Byron

I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists and the sound that they bring. — Paul Weller

Home. What kinder place could there be on earth, and why did it seem to them all like exile? Oh, — Marilynne Robinson

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile. — Juan Goytisolo

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? — Horace

Take thought.
I have weathered the storm,
I have beaten out my exile. — Ezra Pound

Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. — Henning Mankell

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. — Christopher Hitchens

Some women's arms are places of exile; others are a native land. — Amin Maalouf

I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains;
The punishment is nought; that it is deserved
Is all the pain. — Ovid

Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me. — Orson Scott Card

But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist. — Umberto Eco

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

You'll live in exile and die as you lived. — Stephen King

Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled. — Cliff Bleszinski

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile ... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider. — Larry McMurtry

For her, he swallowed the black tea of exile. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile. — Isabel Allende