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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 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
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
The hole left by the moon's tearing-free and monument to her exile;
— Thomas Pynchon
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
An exile's only country is his country's literature.
— Andrei Makine
It's hard to live with people willing to send you to exile or death. It's hard to become intimate with them. It's hard to love them.
— Milan Kundera
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
The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
— Elvis Costello
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
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Take up the White Man's burden
send forth the best ye breed
go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. — Rudyard Kipling
send forth the best ye breed
go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. — Rudyard Kipling
It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
— G.K. Chesterton
Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in 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
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
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
There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.
— Thomas Pynchon
It would be like Prospero's island, but in a good way: not a country of exile, a model world, safe and peaceful and private. A magician's land.
— Lev Grossman
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
— Thomas Jefferson
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
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth.
— Michael Ondaatje
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
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
Pilgrims were people in scientific exile.
— Anne Carson
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
Ali — Davis Miller
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains;
The punishment is nought; that it is deserved
Is all the pain. — Ovid
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