“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Source: Tears and Saints (1937)
“In exile one is nothing but a ghost ... I ceased to exist when I went into exile.”
Source: From Arenas’ work Before Night Falls (as quoted in “On Exile and the Longing for Home: Cuban Writer Reinaldo Arenas” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/on-exile-and-the-longing-_b_4451017; 2014 Feb 18)
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Xiaolu Guo (1973) Chinese-British novelist and film director
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 269 (ISBN 9781784740689).
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“I too a wanderer and exile from heaven.”
Empedocles (-490–-430 BC) ancient Greek philosopher
tr. Phillip H. De Lacy and Benedict Einarson. Cf. full quotation at Leonard p. 54-55 https://books.google.com/books?id=omUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA54#v=onepage&q&f=false<br>fr. 115, as paraphrased in Plutarch's Moralia <br class="br">Purifications <br class="br">Context: A law there is, an oracle of Doom, Of old enacted by the assembled gods, That if a Daemon—such as live for ages— Defile himself with foul and sinful murder, He must for seasons thrice ten thousand roam Far from the Blest; such is the path I tread, I too a wanderer and exile from heaven.
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
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Diogenes of Sinope (-404–-322 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy
Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 49
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius
“Memories are ever shifting when you live in exile.”
An-My Lê (1960) American photographer
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“I like to hide in Ireland, but I like to think of myself as an internal exile.”
John Banville (1945) Irish writer
John Banville: claiming Kafka as an Irish writer (2011)
“I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile.”
Dilexi iustitiam et odi iniquitatem; propterea morior in exilio.
Pope Gregory VII Pope from 1073 to 1085
Last words, as quoted in Joseph Priestley A General History of the Christian Church Vol. 1 (1802), p. 361.