Exiled Quotes

“That is, to be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“I am a star in the firmament
that observe the world, despises the world
and consumed in its heat.

I am the sea by night in a storm
the sea shouting that accumulates new sins
and to the ancient makes recompense.

I am exiled from your world
of pride polite, by pride defrauded,
I am the king without crown.

I am the passion without words
without stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war,
is my same force that make me sick”
― Hermann Hesse

“I exile Jude Duarte to the mortal world. Until and unless she is pardoned by the crown, let her not step one foot in Faerie or forfeit her life.'

'I gasp. 'But you can't do that!'

He looks at me for a long moment, but his gaze is mild, as though he's expecting me to be fine with exile. As though I am nothing more than one of his petitioners. As though I am nothing at all. 'Of course I can,' he replies.
...
Our eyes meet, and the odd smile on his face is clearly meant for me. I remember what it was to hate him with the whole of my heart, but I've remembered too late.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Life’s harrowing echo only to be faded into exiled loneliness”
― Munia Khan

“During this period of his life, Burroughs was seeking a physical utopia, a place where he could live and act as he wanted with interference from neither official state authority nor unofficial moral authority. In fact, he wanted to live in a place where he was out of place and where consequently he would be free.”
― Greg A. Mullins

“حين أشتاق أُقلِب وجه الأوراق .. أبحث عن وتر ٍ يعزفني .. عن وطنٍ يعرفني , عن ذِكرى تعصف بي حد الأعماق !”
― فتون العنزي

“A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.”
― Núria Añó

“Knight, of course, felt that anyone's willing assistance tainted the whole thing. Either you are hidden or you're not, no middle ground. He wished to be unconditionally alone, exiled to an island of his own creation, an uncontacted tribe of one.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“I felt as if I were in an exiled and floating world, isolated from all necessities of life except the one of buying things.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, Bits of Paradise

“I realized that a new phase of exile was beginning, that from now on there would be other periods, all different, each with its own anxieties, all shattering and overwhelming, and that I would be changing too, passing from one crisis to the next until I reached the moment of truth, unique and definitive — the day on which I would either stop being an exile and return home, or unavoidably, with sadness and resignation, become an immigrant.”
― Fernando Alegria

“...she speculates about all the aspects of the mortal world she's going to have to explain to Dad. 'Like cell phones,' she says. 'Or self-checkout in the grocery store. Oh, this is going to be amazing. Seriously, his exile is the best present you ever got me.'

'You know that he's going to be so bored that he's going to try to micromanage your life,' Taryn says. 'Or plan your invasion of a neighbouring apartment building.'

At that, Vivi stops smiling.

It makes Oak giggle, though.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“If you are gone [from your homeland] for fifteen years, you will not return. Even if you return, you will not return.”
― Bruno Bettelheim

“England sinks, the waters rise, but exile is not all about weeping by the rivers. There are also insights in the wilderness.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

“Ask any child from Chile to sketch something, anything at all. Before any human figure, a cloud, a tree, they'll fill the upper space with an array of jagged peaks.”
― Ariel Dorfman, Feeding On Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile

“Completely cutting others off over mere opinions is rooted in cowardice; but being the one cut off is grounded in courage.”
― Criss Jami