Exile quotes
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The end of exile is the end of being.
-- Angela Carter -
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
-- Antony Jay -
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
-- Ariel Dorfman -
Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
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We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.
-- Augusto Pinochet -
Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.
-- Azar Nafisi -
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 -
Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.
-- Colin Wilson -
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The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.
-- David Whyte -
I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.
-- Dree Hemingway -
The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
-- Elvis Costello -
Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
-- Emile M. Cioran -
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I don’t think of myself as a dissident, and I’m more of an immigrant than an exile,
-- Ha Jin -
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
-- Horace -
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.
-- Ismail Kadaré -
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
-- Italo Calvino -
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We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.
-- James Joyce -
Independence didn't have to be exile.
-- Julia Alvarez -
In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
-- Lajos Kossuth -
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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
-- Mahmoud Darwish -
Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.
-- Martin Buber -
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.
-- Nancy Horan -
Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
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I have loved justice and hated inequity; and therefore I die in exile. [Lat., Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio.]
-- Pope Gregory VII -
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
-- Tahar Ben Jelloun -
For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.
-- Theodora -
Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional
-- Trinh T. Minh-ha -
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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 -
The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.
-- Catherine Camus -
I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.
-- Chantal Akerman -
Exile is a series of photographs without texts.
-- William J. Mitchell -
