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9. “There is a difference between being put out and being put outdoors. If you are put out, you go somewhere else; if you are outdoors, there is no place to go. The distinction was subtle but final. Outdoors was the end of something, an irrevocable, physical fact, defining and complementing our metaphysical condition... Dead doesn’t change, and outdoors is here to stay.”
Toni Morrison
Freedom, Death, Exile, Change, Condition, Metaphysical
10. “They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom.” Khalil Gibran Exile Freedom, Noble Rebellion, Oppression Resistance, Freedom, Exile, Rebellion
11. “All things considered, it had been his home, and the set of kindly, well-meaning, gentle-mannered people driven to death or exile for the sole crime of their existing, was the set to which he too belonged. His dark youthful broodings, the romantic – and let me add, somewhat artificial – passion for his mother’s land, could not, I am sure, exclude real affection for the country where he had been born and bred.” Vladimir Nabokov Home, Exile, Death, Belonging, Passion, Memory
13. “They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought, and no doubt if you are of a mystical tendency, consolation, and even explanation, shower down from the unbroken surface. But.” Virginia Woolf Sky perspective, Global connection, Mystical thoughts, Travel, Comfort, Exile
Exile Quotes by Famous Authors
9. “There is a difference between being put out and being put outdoors. If you are put out, you go somewhere else; if you are outdoors, there is no place to go. The distinction was subtle but final. Outdoors was the end of something, an irrevocable, physical fact, defining and complementing our metaphysical condition... Dead doesn’t change, and outdoors is here to stay.”
Toni Morrison Freedom, Death, Exile, Change, Condition, Metaphysical
10. “They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom.”
Khalil Gibran Exile Freedom, Noble Rebellion, Oppression Resistance, Freedom, Exile, Rebellion
11. “All things considered, it had been his home, and the set of kindly, well-meaning, gentle-mannered people driven to death or exile for the sole crime of their existing, was the set to which he too belonged. His dark youthful broodings, the romantic – and let me add, somewhat artificial – passion for his mother’s land, could not, I am sure, exclude real affection for the country where he had been born and bred.”
Vladimir Nabokov Home, Exile, Death, Belonging, Passion, Memory
13. “They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought, and no doubt if you are of a mystical tendency, consolation, and even explanation, shower down from the unbroken surface. But.”
Virginia Woolf Sky perspective, Global connection, Mystical thoughts, Travel, Comfort, Exile
