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 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.

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.

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

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

Independence didn't have to be exile.

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?

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.

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

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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