Edward Said Quotes:
Ocupation: Professor
Life: November 1, 1935 - September 24, 2003
Birthday: November 1
Death: September 24
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.
source: Edward W. Said (2013). “Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays”, p.212, Granta Books
topic: Home, Sadness, Thinking, Rift, True Home, Estrangement, Native Place
