Logo
We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periph

We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America — as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and were rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Exile
category

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggars smile from the scorn of free men. – Jose Marti

Category:
Exile

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. – Italo Calvino

Category:
Exile

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. – Cyril Connolly

Category:
Exile

The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriates career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter. – Paul Theroux

Category:
Exile

Random Quotes

Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – Octavio Paz

Category:
Society

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. Its got politics in it, its got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things. – Kate Clinton

Category:
Sports

I didnt go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts. – Jet Li

Category:
Sports

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected. – Source Unknown

Category:
Dancing