Exile Quotes

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile. - Oscar Wilde

You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else. - George Weinberg

You really feel for them. The volunteers talk about their own personal experiences of being oppressed in Iraq, ... Their accounts range from being brutalized to being shot, and in some cases, the exiles say their family members have been murdered. - Bob Stern

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. - Edmund Burke

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just. - Simone Weil

When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return. - Hal Lindsey

When I read his book Dark Clouds at Dawn I thought that, my goodness, this is probably the only ex-detainee that's willing to speak about his experiences and is not in exile. - Martyn See

What I really got from Bob was this unbelievable sadness. He really did know how the world worked, and he really did seem like a wandering guy without a country, like an exile. And it was sad. - Stephen Gaghan