Exile Quotes - Page 8

• Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

  Linda Barnes

  Latin, Ghetto, Insults You

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Cold Case”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Mind, Revolutionary, Trotsky

  Whittaker Chambers (1964). “Cold Friday”, New York

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• Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a rare narrative in that it charts a life divided between England and Sudan. Without a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translationdoes the original justice.

  Hisham Matar

  Men, Justice, Doubt

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• If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.

  John Perry Barlow

  Art, Intelligent, Men

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• exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Psychology, Twenties, Might

  Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.144, St. Martin's Press

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• An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Home, America

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• From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

  Freya Stark

  Sorrow, Divine, Streams

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• For the weariest road that man may wend
  Is forth fromn the home of his father.

  Euripides

  Father, Home, Men

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• I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house?
  MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.

  James Joyce

  Father, Mean, Home

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• If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

  James Joyce

  Politics, Language, Ifs

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• I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains;
  The punishment is nought; that it is deserved
  Is all the pain.

  Ovid

  Pain, Punishment, Faults

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• Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Ends, 1960s, Begin Again

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• All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

  Janet Frame

  Journey, Land, Lost

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

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• It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?

  Martha Gellhorn

  Believe, Farewell, Land

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.85, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.

  Sean Wilentz

  Light, Giving, Historical

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• O, a kiss
  Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip
  Hath virgined it e'er since.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Revenge

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 5, sc. 3, l. 44

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• So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

  Saint Patrick

  Tribes, God Love, Stranger

  "Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus". Book by Saint Patrick, c.450.

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• Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to that one brother or wife who cannot stand a silent fate in Boston or London or Melbourne. I’ve met many who remain haunted by the persistent ghost of an earlier place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Brother, Fate

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• It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.

  Nancy Horan

  Self, Different, Oneself

  Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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• I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents of his government or life in prison (in solitary confinement)-to awaken us to the danger of our loss of democracy to a total-surveilla nce state

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Country, Loss, Government

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• This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become writers in exile, where what we write is the only link across distance and time…I became a Maryland writer because the community of Juneau took me in.

  Paula Vogel

  Memories, Distance, Writing

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• In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be obscure, to be off the beaten path, to be in the wilderness feels like abandonment. It seems more like exile than a vacation. To be so far off of everyone’s radar that the world might forget about us for a while? That’s almost akin to death…[But] far from being punishment, judgment, or a curse, the wilderness is a gift. It’s where we can experience the primal delight of being fully known and delighted in by God.

  Jonathan Martin

  Vacation, Media, Punishment

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• Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.

  Rolf Potts

  Fate, Waiting, Circumstances

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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• The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made for heaven, and my heart is longing for it.

  John Corapi

  Heart, Heaven, Longing

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• History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.

  Stephen Spender

  Angel, Gun, Years

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.136, Faber & Faber

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