Exile Quotes - Page 7

• Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in God and God alone. Theirs is a story of defiance and oppression, and patience in tribulation reaching back to the exodus and their exile. That story continued in the founding of the state of Israel. That story continues in the defense of the state of Israel.

  George W. Bush

  Struggle, Men, Israel

  "Bush Speaks At Holocaust Memorial Event". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. April 19, 2001.

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• I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

  Saint Patrick

  Heart, Bishops, Tribes

  "Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus". Translated by John Skinner, www.ancienttexts.org.

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• Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.

  Uma Krishnaswami

  War, Heart, Emotional

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• The end of exile is the end of being.

  Angela Carter

  Ends

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Country, Book, Years

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• What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Home, Land, People

  "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde". Book by Peter Ackroyd, 1983.

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• I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

  Petrarch

  Sweet, Memories, Love Is

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• ... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

  Albert Camus

  Want, Return, Stranger

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• ... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

  Albert Camus

  Family, Home, Son

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• On the August night in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took with him five revolvers, seven bags of gold, and five friends, still in their pajamas.

  Joan Didion

  Night, August, President

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 14, 2015

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• Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.

  Pierre Corneille

  Rome

  "Sertorius". Book by Pierre Corneille, act III, scene I, 1662.

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• The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspiring, Reality, Agriculture

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.286, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Country, Jew, Fury

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• Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

  Shimon Peres

  Swimming, Years, Israel

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• Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from it. ... No, what I mean is that Scotland's beauties, though undeniable, are obvious ones, easy to carry in the heart, easy even to describe to the benighted members of less fortunate races. Lakes, islands and mountains, heather and rowan, broad straths and narrow glens - these are jewels easily worn in the memory.

  Jan Struther

  Running, Country, Memories

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

  Jack Gleeson

  Everyday, Kind, Fame

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• For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.

  Walker Percy

  Angel, Men, Self

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

  David Whyte

  Home, Moments

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• Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling of Diaspora Jewry that they are partners in the enterprise of Israel's resurgence in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people; and the power of science, and technology which Israel unceasingly, and not without success, tries to enhance.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Technology, Israel, People

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• The soul on earth is an immortal guest,
  Compelled to starve at an unreal feast:
  A spark, which upward tends by nature's force:
  A stream diverted from its parent source;
  A drop dissever'd from the boundless sea;
  A moment, parted from eternity;
  A pilgrim panting for the rest to come;
  An exile, anxious for his native home.

  Hannah More

  Home, Sea, Parent

  Hannah More, “Reflections Of King Hezekiah, In His Sickness”

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• Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

  Madame de Stael

  Mail, Tombs

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• 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.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Distance

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• 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

  Children, Spain, Germany

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• I believe if I should die,
  And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie
  Cold, dead, and dumb to all the world contains,
  The folded orbs would open at thy breath,
  And from its exile in the Isles of Death
  Life would come gladly back along my veins.

  Mary Ashley Townsend

  Death, Lying, Believe

  Mary Ashley Townsend, Ralph Lee Woodward (2001). “Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend”, p.9, University of Alabama Press

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• Of the 2,000,000 Armenians in Turkey in 1914, one million have been slaughtered, and the survivors only 130,000 remain in Turkey and the rest are refugees and exiles. Armenian property losses are valued at over 5,000,000,000 dollars are more than three fourths of the estimated wealth of the Armenian race.

  Herbert Adams Gibbons

  Loss, Turkeys, Race

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