Exile Quotes - Page 6

• For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

  Theodora

  Kings, Words Of Wisdom

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• Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  America, Speech, Faces

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• [About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

  I. L. Peretz

  Teacher, People, Different

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• Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Kings, People

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.142, Penguin

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• It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Kings, Children, Drama

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.251, A&C Black

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• They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom

  Khalil Gibran

  Truth, Freedom, Humanity

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• [As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Silence, Mind

  "A Qualified Farewell". Essay by Raymond Chandler (early 1950's), published in "The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler" edited by Frank MacShane, 1976.

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• If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living,-then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.

  Johannes Kepler

  Home, Fate, Men

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• The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Retirement, Military

  "Other People's Trades" by Primo Levi, ("Ex-Chemist"), 1985.

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• In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Fear, Home

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

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• It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fashion, Culture, Has Beens

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• ...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.

  Robert Fuller Murray

  Flower, Winter, Leafs

  Robert Fuller Murray, Andrew Lang (1894). “Robert F. Murray: His Poems”

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• An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

  James Joyce

  Humor, Silence, Three

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• Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Son, Men, White Man

  "The White Man's Burden" st. 1 (1899)

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• Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.

  Marianne Williamson

  War, Land, Thrones

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

  Henning Mankell

  Cities, Organization, Village

  Henning Mankell (2011). “The Dogs of Rig: A Kurt Wallander Mystery”, p.298, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Moving, Outsiders, Natural

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• Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Sheep, Liberty, Fields

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jupiter, Act 3, 1943.

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• I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

  Epictetus

  Men, Stay Positive, Choices

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.197, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• All writers - all beings - are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

  Janet Frame

  Writing, Journey, Land

  Janet Frame (2001). “An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• Getting cut off from the knights' magic rock also required a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom. (Those of you in the Hushlands, I dare you to work that last sentence into a conversation. "By the way, Sally, did you know that getting cut from the knight's magic rock also requires a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom?")

  Brandon Sanderson

  Cutting, Rocks, Mushrooms

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Knights of Crystallia: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.127, Macmillan

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• And if the City falls and one survives
  he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile
  he shall be the City

  Zbigniew Herbert

  Fall, Cities, Ifs

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• I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight

  Melissa Etheridge

  Pain, Night, Justice

  Melissa Etheridge, Laura Morton (2011). “The Truth Is . . .: My Life in Love and Music”, p.90, Random House

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