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I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile. -- Pope Gregory VII
Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment. -- Marco Rubio
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance. -- Richard von Weizsaecker
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room. -- Mahmoud Darwish
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
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. -- Willa Cather
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice. -- Marcel Proust
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Dreamer in Exile. -- Teresa Medeiros
Exile is a series of photographs without texts. -- William J. Mitchell
Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail. -- Madame de Stael
Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way. -- Martin Buber
Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled. -- Cliff Bleszinski
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. -- Martin Amis
Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile. -- I. L. Peretz
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. -- Edwidge Danticat
Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air. -- Salman Rushdie
I know how men in exile feed on dreams. -- Aeschylus
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. -- Oscar Wilde
The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. -- Christopher Hitchens
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile. -- Ariel Dorfman
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in. -- Azar Nafisi
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. -- Italo Calvino
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. -- Stefan Zweig
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. -- Don DeLillo
I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion. -- Ezra Pound
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. -- Warren G. Harding
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. -- Salman Rushdie
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past. -- John Thorn
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history. -- Delmore Schwartz
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. -- James A. Baldwin
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I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
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. -- Andy Garcia
The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter. -- Paul Theroux
We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due. -- David Whyte
God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast. -- Saint Ambrose
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return. -- Hal Lindsey
Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice? -- Ismail Haniyeh
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew. -- Rachel Cusk
There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. -- Joseph Brodsky
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I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight. -- Chang-Rae Lee
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution, forced exile amidst the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the two World Wars and quite a lot of controversy, was an author who never gave up. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men. -- Jose Marti
I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice. -- George Papandreou
We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong. -- D. H. Lawrence
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.' -- Ariel Dorfman
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile. -- Jean Genet
I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations. -- Ma Jian
I am not in exile. -- Chen Guangcheng
Independence didn't have to be exile. -- Julia Alvarez
Only the mind cannot be sent into exile. -- Ovid
The end of exile is the end of being. -- Angela Carter
To hope is to send darkest night into exile. -- Sri Chinmoy
An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile. -- James Joyce
I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing. -- Suketu Mehta
No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists. -- Orhan Pamuk
For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile. -- Theodora
I do not feel an exile from America in any sense. -- John Hawkes
I do not feel an exile from America in any sense. -- John Hawkes
I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself. -- Dree Hemingway
Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile? -- Arthur Rimbaud
Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile. -- Mason Cooley
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? -- Horace
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption. -- Baal Shem Tov
Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home? -- Emile M. Cioran
Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional -- Trinh T. Minh-ha
Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back. -- Colin Wilson
I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war. -- Hiam Abbass
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile. -- Milan Kundera
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile. -- Silvio Berlusconi
While living in exile I have become the loudspeaker for the people of Iran. -- Shirin Ebadi
The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters. -- Diane Ackerman
I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile. -- Edward Snowden
Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again. -- Madison Smartt Bell
Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile. -- Isabel Allende
EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. -- Ambrose Bierce
You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else. -- George Weinberg
So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God. -- Saint Patrick
We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected -- James Wright
In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future. -- Lajos Kossuth
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city. -- C. S. Lewis
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. -- Henning Mankell
It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way -- Robertson Davies
I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile, -- Ha Jin
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile. -- C.D. Wright
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile. -- Peter Bichsel
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Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. -- Thomas Jefferson
For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile. -- Alice McDermott
Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. -- Nancy Horan
In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world. -- Jean-Claude Duvalier
Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth. -- Michael Ondaatje
New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left. -- John Updike
Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture. -- Jonas Mekas
New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left. -- John Updike
exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century. -- Phyllis Chesler
Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress. -- Ariel Dorfman
The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile. -- Catherine Camus
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty. -- Khalil Gibran
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid. -- Epictetus
I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile. -- Dalai Lama
Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile. -- Samuel Hall Lord
Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel. -- Elvis Costello

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