Exile Quotes

Exile Quote of the day

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.

Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot.

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

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

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

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.

The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.

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

[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

Independence didn't have to be exile.

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.

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.

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

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

I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.

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

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

I have loved justice and hated inequity; and therefore I die in exile. [Lat., Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio.]

The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made for heaven, and my heart is longing for it.

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

[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.

Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?

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

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

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

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

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

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

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

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

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."

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

Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

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.

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.

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

Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional