TellurianWrites quote: "As a child refugee who grew up in exile, I can tell you that life in exile is by far one of the most heart-wrenching, gruesome and mind-bending things anyone can experience.<br /><br />Twenty years into this journey, I am still coming to terms with it..."

I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
IMAN

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.
HIAM ABBASS

Haunted

You haunt me in my dreams
I can only hear my drowning screams
Is it bec...
STACE LEE

Who are you?
Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?
Have you created a life ...
LANA DEL REY

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
ARIEL DORFMAN

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, ...
MAHMOUD DARWISH

I am not in exile.
CHEN GUANGCHENG

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.
AZAR NAFISI

There is a club in this world that you do not join knowingly.

One day you are just a memb...
JOHNA PASSARO

I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if...
WALT WHITMAN

One of the greatest gifts
That life can give to anyone
Is the very special love that families...
CRAIG S. TUNKS

WHAT IS TRUTH?

Truth is not a thing
Or a concept.
It is as multidimensional
SUZY KASSEM

If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself,
“How can I partic...
GINA GREENLEE

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.
MARCO RUBIO

I believe in the person I want to become.
I believe in the freedom of the open road.
And m...
LANA DEL REY

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'

I am not aware of it. And to me it is one o...
GEORGE ELIOT

Tell me what it is that you are hiding behind your eyes.
Tell me of the pain, so I can make it ...
JOSé N. HARRIS

I am a strong and powerful woman.
I am proud to be a woman and I celebrate the qualities that I...
IDOWU KOYENIKAN

If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can ...
JOHANNES KEPLER

The Awakening

I dreamed that I was a rose
That grew beside a lonely way,
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

In the ebb and flow of my life,
in years gone by, in moments now,
in currents, undertows...
ROBERT TRABOLD

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown i...
ARIEL DORFMAN

What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues,...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)

I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

I believe the way to solve this dilemma is if you marry me, so I’ll always be close by.”
<...
LISA COOKE

One of the secrets of life is to find joy in the journey."
But Grandma, you weren't on *this* ...
MATTHEW BUCKLEY

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,...
E.E. CUMMINGS

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,
Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;...
THOMAS MOORE

You talk to anyone anywhere in the country, and they'll tell you about a pizzeria that they the pizz...
ED LEVINE

If you are reading this... I'm dead so far probably or still alive who knows?
It's bad day in b...
DEYTH BANGER

I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespea...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And conscio...
ROBERT CHARLES WILSON

Look at me; look at me.
Can you see; can you see?
I am here; you are there.
No more f...
DEBASISH MRIDHA

I am who I say I am,
I'm not some fantasy
of how you think you think you know
or who ...
JAMES HOWE

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something; EDWARD EVERETT HALE

I love being single. It's my choice, not a sentence. It's not a state that I'm in until someone bett...
SARAH MORGAN

I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barb...
SAINT PATRICK

Clarence Hurt was driving, and he got lost. “Does anyone know where the Post Office Building is?�...
BRYAN BURROUGH

There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.
A fi...
COLLEEN HOOVER

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government ...
MICHAEL MORIARTY

Misunderstanding me probably means that I am Alien. (As far from here I can tell you sounds pretty i...
DEYTH BANGER

I’d rather be a heart,
keeping my body alive and well
although I tend to get lost someti...
HKL

Looking for Your Face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

My heart in the East
But the rest of me far in the West—
How can I savor this life, ev...
YEHUDA HALEVI

I Like For You To Be Still

I like for you to be still
It is as though you are...
PABLO NERUDA

You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of...
TREVANIAN

You know, there’s no pleasure like the joy of being a sexual woman.

You can take your ...
FIONA THRUST

As you set out on your journey to Ithaca,
pray that your journey be a long one,
filled wit...
BARRY B. POWELL

I do not possess the ability to draw or paint.
I can’t sing or dance.
I can’t knit or ...
BRI JUSTINE

Then she called Matthew.

He answered, "Where the fuck are you? I've been calling you for ...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child

Márgarét, are you gríeving
Over Goldengr...
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

DEAR MISS MANNERS:
I a tired of being treated like a child. My father says it's because I am a ...
JUDITH MARTIN

When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my min...
HENRY B. EYRING

Shall I speak of the consequence
One, that your attention causes?

Words you utter ke...
ZUBAIR AHSAN

i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA

i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA.

Lark’s Song

That child who from Diana’s thought is born
A huntress swift, who do...
D. ALEXANDER NEILL

All you who are in love
Aye and can not remove it
I pity the pain that you endure.
Fo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

Can we share my eyes
so you can see what I see?
Can we share my ears
so you can hea...
KAMAND KOJOURI

I can picture guys sitting out in their yard, working in their yard, bending over to plant some tree...
JASON ALDEAN

When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that...
NEVE CAMPBELL

Beauty is frightening," they will tell you —

Lazily you will arrange

A Spani...
ALEXANDER BLOK

When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I...
NEIL GAIMAN

I’m well aware that this—that I—am the first man to ever do this to her. And yes, as a guy, th...
EMMA CHASE

I appreciate the fact that you have one redeeming quality, Jack, but that is all it is. Just a hint ...
K.A. LINDE

I will be forever grateful for your presence in my life. I am a much better human being because of y...
EMMA FORREST

I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and neve...
MARY OLIVER

When I was a child, an angel came to say,
A true friend is coming my warrior to sweep you away,...
SHANNON L. ALDER

Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...

...
VERA NAZARIAN

Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind.
And mind can only see things that alre...
TOBA BETA

I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.

T...
MEG ROSOFF

I often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me t...
INGRID BETANCOURT

Gus, do I have to put you in a cage or something? Because I will! Don't push it, mister!"

KRISTAN HIGGINS

You know, there’s no pleasure like the joy of being a sexual woman.

You can take your ...
FIONA THRUST

Reading well is one of the great pleasures
that solitude can afford you, because it is
at ...
HAROLD BLOOM

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realit...
STEFAN ZWEIG

The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath i...
AYN RAND

Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.
Have you given much thought to our mortal con...
ANNE CARSON

So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, ...
NEIL GAIMAN

I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with clean blood
and organized drawers.
I...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

Every group of friends has that one experience that, no matter where you are you carry it with you f...
DR. KARAN M PAI

But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile f...
UMBERTO ECO

[BURR]
I am the one thing in life I can control.
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define mys...
DAVID LEVITHAN

There are pieces of me, small pieces, still in love with a fiction. A ghost living inside a living b...
VICTORIA AVEYARD

A Woman's Question

Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing
Ever made by t...
JOSHUA HARRIS

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I stud...
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Child, as I look in your eyes
You know my life seems like a minute
There I find living proof...
MICHAEL MCDONALD

I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE

It’s funny because my life is full of this:

you think you’re escaping, until you run ...
CHANGDICTATOR

There's a depth in you that has yet been discovered.
Abyssal and buried
it terrifies your ...
B. YOUNGZ

As someone who has researched and written about the Mexican cartels and the futile 'war on drugs...
DON WINSLOW

He wasn’t that careful, Lucan. I think you’ve got him mixed up with someone else.”

...
J.A. HUSS

Some things cannot be fixed; they can only be carried. Grief like yours, love like yours, can only b...
MEGAN DEVINE

Child, child, love while you can
The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man;
Never fea...
SARA TEASDALE

WHO AM I?

I have seven heavenly panels
Leading up to a pointed sphere
I’m mul...
SUZY KASSEM

THOMAS
Guilty
Of mankind. I have perpetrated human nature.
My father and...
CHRISTOPHER FRY

As a child refugee who grew up in exile, I can tell you that life in exile is by far one of the most heart-wrenching, gruesome and mind-bending things anyone can experience.

Twenty years into this journey, I am still coming to terms with it...

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Twenty years into this journey, I am still coming to terms with it...

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Twenty years into this journey, I am still coming to terms with it...