42 Exile Quotes for You to Enjoy

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. Jhumpa Lahiri

Alienation Borders Crossing Poetry Poets Writers Tension Between Beyond Narratives Always Been Exile Encounters Familiar Beginnings Wandering Literature Epic Theme Epic Poetry Stranger Novels Based Basic Assimilation

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

Loneliness Me Bucks Concept Continually Exile Self-Sufficiency Up

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. Stefan Zweig

World Understanding Only Misfortune Exile Provide Overview In-Depth Realities

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

Myself Would Write Never Well Exile Might Ever

When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return. Hal Lindsey

People First Nation Tree Jewish People Relentless Would Indicate He Put Return Became Ready Said Leaves Exile Years Persecution May Door After Again Forth Fig Nearly Jesus Jewish

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile. Pope Gregory VII

Justice Hated Exile Die Loved Iniquity Therefore

Satan understands the power of men and women united in righteousness. He is still stinging from his banishment into eternal exile after Michael led the hosts of heaven, comprised of valiant men and women united in the cause of Christ, against him. Sheri L. Dew

Women Satan Righteousness Cause Christ Men Men And Women Power Valiant He Hosts Him Understands Still Exile His Led Michael Heaven After Against Eternal United

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas. Ai Weiwei

Life Political Old Internet Three My Life Living Thinking Liberal Later Background States Circumstance Ideas Course Parts Exercise Opinion Equipped Exile Years Very Quite Maybe Cannot Then Really United United States Earlier

Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off. Andre Aciman

Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again. Antonio Munoz Molina

Dictatorship Thirties Jews Seventies Immigrants Had Go Exile Austria Germany Children Spain Again Grandchildren Who Here

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.' Ariel Dorfman

Life Saying Home Silence You Blessing Will Think Has-Been Silenced Voice Thrown Come Been Exile Die Curse Cannot Turn Really Your Dedicated Whole Need

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

Age Live Exile Refugee

Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries. Bhagat Singh

Life Family Patriotism Three Uncle Birth Our Abode Entire Leading Countries Foreign Foreign Countries Exile His Years Left Replete Heavenly Jail After Sentiments Two

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. Chantal Akerman

Time Am Israel Go Exile Wherever Even Jewish

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

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war. Hiam Abbass

War Distance Caused Exile Up Grew Aware

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

World Elsewhere Never Had Exile Years Account Frozen Either Switzerland

My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity. John Updike

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings. Julius Wellhausen

Age Assumed Books Thorough Kings More Towards Judges Undertaken Condemns Exile End Revision Than Samuel Commonly Much Whole

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