Banished Quotes

“Do you think we make sad things into songs in order to hold on to the sadness or to banish it—I think it is to banish the sadness. So then if you write a happy song, is it not sadder than a sad song because by making it you have banished your own happiness into a song?”

“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.”

“ 'In our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we were banished, to a cold and lonely house, in the charge of a man who hated us. And we wish them trapped there as we were trapped.' 'You consider that unjust, Serenity?' 'We consider it cruel,' Maia said. 'And we do not think that cruelty is ever just.' ”

“Ties are straightened and expressions banished.”

“Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice.”

“My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.”

“As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.”

“God was never created the economy.Men found it after banished from Eden.”

“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”

“Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.”