Exile Quotes

• They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Travel
  • Dying
  • Comfort

• From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Humans
  • Sorrow

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

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Sleep
  • Nights
  • Exile

• I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.

  

  Iman
  • Family
  • Refugee
  • Exile

• I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.

  

  Ha Jin
  • Thinking
  • Immigrants
  • Exile

• It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • Really
  • Exile
  • Self-imposed

• The 1980s were such a shock for me. I was really young, obviously, and The Slits were just mutilated. We were totally sabotaged to such a point that we were put out in exile. So that was the best way for me to spend the '80s: in the jungle, naked. Maybe there are more options now, and there's more girl groups. The only thing good that came out of the '80s was breakdancing.

  

  Ari Up
  • Girl
  • Way
  • Groups

• And if the City falls and one survives

  

  Zbigniew Herbert
  • City
  • Fall
  • Cities

• Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world's my way.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Travel
  • Exile

• 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
  • Reason
  • Moral
  • Motivated

• Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Brother
  • Sweet
  • Made

• 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
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Joy

• History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Long
  • Today
  • Sky

• All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Heart
  • Presence
  • Exile

• Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • House
  • Virtue
  • Accepting

• We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Trying
  • House
  • Exile

• 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 Kadare
  • Distance
  • Writer
  • Exile

• The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Water
  • Miracle
  • Crave

• You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.

  

  George Weinberg
  • Yourself
  • Exile
  • Priding

• Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Victory
  • Defeat
  • Motive

• An exile's only country is his country's literature.

  

  Andreï Makine
  • Country
  • Literature
  • Exile