Exile Quotes - page 6

We cannot determine whether or not he had met Lenin during their common exile in Switzerland; Mussolini once cryptically remarked: ‘Lenin knew me better than I knew him. (Richard Pipes)
I Am China is a parallel story about two Chinese lovers in exile – the external and internal exile that I had felt since leaving China. View quote
Xiaolu Guo
The Supreme God (kaḥ) (Rāma) [is resplendent] on [both] the earth (kau) and in Sāketaloka (ke); from him there is pleasure in the universe and in the sound of the peacock (kekakekākaḥ); he takes pleasure and bliss in the caw of the [Kākabhuśuṇḍi] crow (kākakākākakaḥ); from him there is pleasure for all the worlds (kakaḥ); for him the pain [of exile] is a pleasure (kākaḥ); his crow ([Kākabhuśuṇḍi]) is praiseworthy (kākaḥ); from him there is pleasure for Brahmā (kakaḥ); he calls out [to the devotees] (kākaḥ); from him there is pleasure for Kukā or Sītā (kukākaḥ); he calls out to the [Kākabhuśuṇḍi] crow (kākakaḥ); and from him there are worldly fruits and the bliss of liberation (kukaḥ). ॥ 20.92 ॥. View quote
Rāmabhadrācārya
As the plane climbed over the town and swung above the sea I knew how it felt to go into exile. View quote
Wilfred Thesiger
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution, forced exile amidst the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the two World Wars and quite a lot of controversy, was an author who never gave up. View quote
Ashwin Sanghi
I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile. View quote
Chantal Akerman
I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself. View quote
Dree Hemingway
Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier. View quote
Elliott Abrams
I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice. View quote
George Papandreou
In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again. View quote
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world. (Jean-Claude Duvalier)
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past. View quote
John Thorn
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile. View quote
Juan Goytisolo
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings. View quote
Julius Wellhausen
The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money. View quote
Marc Wallice
If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all. View quote
Peter Morgan
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives. View quote
Sharon Salzberg
There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives. View quote
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
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. View quote
Rafael Nadal
Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men. View quote
José Martí
New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left. (John Updike)
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
While living in exile I have become the loudspeaker for the people of Iran. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
Toil on, and in thy toil rejoice; For toil comes rest, for exile, home; Soon shalt thou hear the bridegroom's voice, The midnight peal: "Behold, I come." View quote
Horatius Bonar
I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me. View quote
Zadie Smith