Exile Quotes
Roman Payne
She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.
4779Roman Payne
You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.
1319 Roman Payne
I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.
1954 Roman Payne
When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass.
1592 Janet Frame
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..
1191 Dejan Stojanovic
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
4780 Ovid
Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.
1318 G.K. Chesterton
Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.
2785 William Stafford
They miss the whisper that runs
any day in your mind,
"Who are you really, wanderer?"-
and the answer you have to give
no matter how dark and cold
the world around you is:
"Maybe I'm a king.
3262 Martin Buber
Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.
1969 T.A. Miles
Should one continue to follow the faith of a group that's cast him out? Shouldn't it stand to reason that if he was true to that faith that the group should have been true to him? Is it unreasonable to ask forgiveness of one who is all-forgiving?
4823 D.B. Nielsen
We are exiles in Time's abyss, strangers now in the Promised Land.
1835 Roman Payne
With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild 'wanderess' ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me foolish and blind to where you find me now. The first time I saw her, fires were alight. It was a spicy night in Barcelona. The air was fragrant and free.
2836 Sarah Miller
My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late - our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten.
2469 Primo Levi
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air.
2376 James Joyce
Non servirò ciò in cui non credo più, si chiami questo la casa, la patria o la Chiesa: e tenterò di esprimere me stesso in un qualunque modo di vita o di arte quanto più potrò liberamente e integralmente, adoperando per difendermi le sole armi che mi concedo di usare: il silenzio, l'esilio e l'astuzia.
4127 Roman Payne
When she was a child,
my love carried a road map in her hand
the way other girls carried handkerchiefs.
4994 R.A. Salvatore
These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration.
These were the friends who gave me my life.
3699 Marty Rubin
The plant that's been uprooted has only courage to hold it up.
3810 Anna Jae
i am an exile in my own life.
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