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Exile7 quotes
I have been a stranger in a strange land. — Moses · 1405 BCAnd Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. — Genesis 4:16 · 1405 BCFor we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. — David · 430 BCFor a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. — Theodor Adorno · 1951Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. — God · 1405 BCAll 7 quotes →Banishment1 quote
A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. — God · 1405 BCEphemeral nature of life1 quote
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. — David · 430 BCFriends1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931Friendship1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931Garden of Eden1 quote
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. — Genesis 4:16 · 1405 BCHome1 quote
Exile is predicated on the existence of, love for, and a real bond with one's native place; the universal truth of exile is not that one has lost that love or home, but that inherent in each is an unexpected, unwelcome loss. Regard experiences then as if they were to disappear. — Edward Said · 1993Loneliness1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931Punishment1 quote
A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. — God · 1405 BCThe human condition1 quote
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. — David · 430 BCValue of friendship1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931Writing1 quote
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. — Theodor Adorno · 1951