Exile
Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.
The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.
To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.
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Exile Quotations
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Marcel Proust
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Aeschylus
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Willa Cather
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.
John Millington Synge
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Stefan Zweig
I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
John C. Hawkes
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Don DeLillo
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
Martha Gellhorn
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.
John Thorn
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.
Julius Wellhausen
You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.
George Weinberg
I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
Pope Gregory VII
The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.
Marc Wallice
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
In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
Lajos Kossuth
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.
Shmuel Y. Agnon
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.
Juan Goytisolo
It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.
Richard Griffiths
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
Richard von Weizsaecker
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
Antony Jay
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.
Larry McMurtry
Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.
Azar Nafisi
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Warren G. Harding
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
Walter Duranty
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.
Peter Bichsel
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Exile Translations
exile in Danish is eksil
exile in Dutch is verbannen, uitbannen
exile in French is exiler, exilent, exilons, exil, exilez, proscrit
exile in German is Exil
exile in Italian is esule
exile in Latin is exsilium
exile in Norwegian is landflyktighet, landsforvisning, eksil
exile in Spanish is exilio, destierro
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