exile Quotes

“O country lost, and gods redeem’d in vain, If still in endless exile we remain!”

“Thus the first thing that plague brought to our town was exile.”

“Jason: Anything you or the children want in exile, let me know; I’ll gladly furnish it … Medea: The presents of the wicked are pure poison.”

“It’s not easy to start over in a new place,′ he said. ‘Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.”

“Nurse: Yes, now (Medea) knows at a terrible first hand what it is to miss one’s native land.”

“Nurse: (Medea) might be a rock or wave or the sea, for all she heeds of sympathy from friends, except sometimes to…moan to herself about her father--whom she loved--and her country and the home she sacrificed.”

“Nurse: She never would have baited Pelias’ daughters to the murder of their father.”

“That’s how justice works around here. We don’t have jails or fines. If you commit a serious crime, we exile you to Earth. For everything else, there’s Rudy.”

“We shall exile Caius. He won’t be allowed to play with us, and none of us must talk to him.”

“One story leads to the generous embrace of the living world, the other to banishment. One woman is our ancestral gardener, a cocreator of the good green world that would be the home of her descendants. The other was an exile, just passing through an alien world on a rough road to her real home in heaven.”