Quotes of: Exile Keyword

Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer bec...

Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998-2003

Exile is the brother of death.

Berber

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 tru...

Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

Marco Rubio

Who lives in exile finds that spring has no charm.

Russian

Life is a relentless expulsion from where we come from and an ongoing deportation to alien realms. We are in exile and our greatest dream is to return to the lost land. It is the greatest dream because no matter how long our exile is going to last, t...

Franco Santoro

Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.

The Exiled Queen

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.

Michael Moriarty

I can't make you, Rebecca, but you'll probably feel better if you eat.

The Exiled Queen

You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.

The Exiled Queen

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

Mahmoud Darwish

The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.

The Exiled Heart: A Meditative Autobiography

Faith doesn't move mountains, Detective. It just obscures the view.

The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir

You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.

My Exile Lifestyle

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.

Delmore Schwartz

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel

Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

The Exiled Queen

Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.

The Exiled Queen

If someone grabs you in the street, hit hard and fast, because you may not get a second chance.

The Exiled Queen