Exile Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Independence didn't have to be exile.

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

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

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

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

Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in 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.

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

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

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.

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.

EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.

The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.

In the 70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

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

While living in exile I have become the loudspeaker for the people of Iran.

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.

The end of exile is the end of being.

Exile is a series of photographs without texts.

The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists.

What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

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.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.

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

To hope is to send darkest night into exile.

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.