Quotes of: Exile Keyword

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Diane Ackerman

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

Ender in Exile

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

Little Bee

An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.

In the Light of What We Know: A Novel

Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the only things worth believing at al.

Return to Exile

And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.

Return to Exile

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

Peter Bichsel

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

Richard von Weizsaecker

I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.

Rafael Nadal

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

Jack Gleeson

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

James Salter

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

Christopher Hitchens

In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

Jean Claude Duvalier

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

Ariel Dorfman

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

Azar Nafisi

People exiled in the past and disowning the present may build the wealth but not the future.

Anuj Somany

Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

Froi of the Exiles

If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others.

Froi of the Exiles

Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.

Jack London

If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.

Ma Jian