Exile Quotes

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

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.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

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.