Banished Quotes

“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?”
― Euripides, Electra

“He held up his hands in surrender. “I’m not here to start trouble. I am just doing some research for my thesis.”

“If you don’t get out of this bar, you are going to be writing your thesis via Ouija board.”
― Jessica Fortunato, Nocturnal Embers

“So many wars have been fought and so much injustice has been perpetrated because we've banished others from our group and therefore our circle of concern.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Writing requires a degree of both detachment and immersion. People banished from a community find themselves perfectly positioned to become writers. No one can silence an exile. An exile encapsulates no need to placate anybody except for himself or herself.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“mostly dreams reject us
lights go up at daybreak
no reentry”
― Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour

“A loner is a person who has signed up to be banished to a lifetime of solitude.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia