Exile Quotes - Page 13

• Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?

  Anne Rice

  Heart, Forever, World

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.157, Ballantine Books

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• Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.

  Catherine Camus

  Paris, Intellectual, World

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

  Thomas Moore

  Art, Home, Eye

  Thomas Moore, J. W. Lake (1829). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore Including His Melodies, Ballads, Etc: Complete in One Volume”, p.286

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• I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from exile and the people in Tibet suffer from oppression.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Time, Past, Needs

  Address Before the Irish Parliament, delivered 28 June 1963, Dublin, Ireland

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• All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Fate, Forever

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.361, Penguin

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• It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way

  Robertson Davies

  World, Way, Saws

  Robertson Davies (1983). “The Deptford trilogy”, Penguin Mass Market

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• The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian witness. It also set up evangelicals to be disappointed when the culture did not turn out the way many expected it to turn out. So our response ought to be that we are always, in every culture, strangers in exile.

  Russell D. Moore

  Christian, Issues, Way

  Source: sojo.net

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• I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign places. I would always make the distinction between those who are exiles in terms of being thrown out of the place they want to be, and others who are exiles in terms of going toward a place they would rather be.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her. Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.

  Melina Marchetta

  Heart, Eye, Seven Days

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.874, Penguin UK

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• I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most accommodating because it is a country of exiles and immigrants and newcomers. There are no walls, in that sense. There is always the sense that traditions are being made as we speak. So you can slot yourself in. If you are living at a distance in society, this is one of the most congenial societies to live in.

  Pico Iyer

  Country, Wall, Distance

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

  Mario Benedetti

  Writing, Thinking, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.

  I. F. Stone

  Integrity, Artist, Russia

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• What can the dove of Jesus give
  You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live,
  The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.

  Robert Lowell

  Wisdom, Jesus, Giving

  Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: A Tribute”

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• One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him.

  Desmond Tutu

  Running, Self, Years

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• How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.

  E. M. Forster

  Country, Home, Men

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.136, RosettaBooks

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• I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was a diplomat. Therefore, I grew up in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, the United States, I studied in Switzerland - so I've always had perspective on my country - I am thankful for that.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Country, Father, Perspective

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had Tibetan students in exile take their classes in English after the age of ten so that they will know more about the outside world. But one of the great things he's done is to bring all the Tibetan groups together in exile, as perhaps they couldn't have been when they weren't in exile and they weren't under such pressure.

  Pico Iyer

  Opportunity, Class, Age

  Source: layoga.com

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• Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's something we can make use of, and he has used it to get rid of everything that he thought was stifling and old, and to create a new, improved and much healthier Tibet.

  Pico Iyer

  Loss, Thinking, Reality

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

  Edward Snowden

  Running, Hands, Hats

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.

  Dalai Lama

  Appreciation, Buddhism, Granted

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Home, Past, Years

  "We Want Peace and Stability". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. June 12, 2006.

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• Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Slavery, Losing, Poor

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.92, 谷月社

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• I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Determination, Men, House

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• I have been clear in my position for quite a while, but the Chinese have not responded. Therefore, we are now in the process of holding a referendum on our policy among all the Tibetan community in exile and even inside Tibet, to check whether the majority thinks we are on the right track.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Track, Community

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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