Exile Quotes - Page 10

• Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Children, Dying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

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• Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Vacation, People, Used

  "Berlusconi Quoted as Saying Mussolini 'Never Killed Anyone'", www.foxnews.com. September 11, 2003.

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• Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

  Alexander Pope

  Wall, Writing, Rooms

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1751). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.49

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• The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.

  Stendhal

  Powerful, Grief, Men

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.154, Tyché

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• Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Hands, Water, Mouths

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.19, Vintage

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• Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe. And that is how the Irish saved civilization.

  Thomas Cahill

  Book, Hero, Europe

  FaceBook post by Thomas Cahill from Mar 07, 2015

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• He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother

  George Orwell

  Brother, Struggle, Taken

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 6 (1949)

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• And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi of the Exiles holding the future of Lumatere in his hands.

  Melina Marchetta

  Heart, Hands, Mind

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• I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer. I believe in the struggle to remake ourselves and challenge each other in the spirit of eternal forgiveness, in the awareness that none of us knows for sure what happiness truly is, but each of us knows the imperative to keep searching. I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Pain, Believe, Struggle

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• It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.

  Richard Griffiths

  Travel, Adventure, Years

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• I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

  Annie Dillard

  Home, Garden, Thinking

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.109, Canongate Books

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• New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.

  John Updike

  New York, Cities, Doe

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.58, Random House

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• Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Memories, Strange

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  And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare.

  Jeremiah

  Cities, Praying, Prosperity

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• Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Victory, Would Be, Ease

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.158, Baen Books

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• ...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.

  Knut Hamsun

  Goodbye, Rip, Thinking

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• We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Mistake, Forgiving, Forgive Yourself

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• Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.178, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Cutting, Night

  William Shakespeare (1768). “The Works of Shakespear, from Mr. Pope's Edition”, p.122

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• Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

  Isabel Allende

  Reflection, Journey, Inward

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• 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

  Home, Want, Becoming

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• We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we're doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people.

  Bill Ayers

  Country, Believe, People

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Grief, Boredom, Woe

  1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Island of the Scots', stanza12.

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• Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports.

  Barack Obama

  Sports, Country, Years

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• Now no way can I stray;
  Save back to England, all the world's my way.

  William Shakespeare

  Travel, World, Way

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.36

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