Emigration And Immigration Quotes

“Because that is what migrations and relocations do to us: when you leave your home for unknown shores, you don’t simply carry on as before; a part of you dies inside so that another part can start all over again.”
― Elif Shafak

“She felt happy in Paris, happier than here, but only Prague held her by a secret bond of beauty.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“Emigranci to osobny naród. Żyjący zawsze w poczuciu, że życie jest gdzie indziej. Czujący to zarówno we własnym państwie, jak i w kraju, który wybrali.”
― Łukasz Stec

“Many years have passed since I first discovered you. You troubled me then. You trouble me now. But mortality, like thunder, rumbles its dull way toward me. It is I who must take the step. Through the fire. And come unto you.”
― Caryl Phillips, Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11

“Les langues ne sont pas seulement des langues : ce sont aussi des world views, c’est à dire des façons de voir et de comprendre le monde. Il y a de l’intraduisible là-dedans... et si vous avez plus d’une world view... vous n’en avez, d’une certaine façon, aucune.”
― Nancy Huston, Nord Perdu, suivi de Douze France

“It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“After the fire a gentle whisper” (Kings 19:12). No, I thought, “after the fire just stillness and void.”
― Hanna Doron, Stories for My Children: A Memoir

“A Magnum Paucity by Stewart Stafford

Build the nation's mausoleum,
Light the people's funeral pyre,
For Hibernia's sons and daughters,
In genocide to expire.

Romantic Ireland has no grave,
It died foraging at the roadside for bites,
Or on a coffin ship out of reach of the New World,
An empire's boot on the throat for last rites.

Did you know your identity all along?
Or find it struggling and aghast?
Old Eireann was the first expendable colony,
And egregiously, not Britannia's last.

Constricting stomachs do not growl patriotic oaths,
Freedom is a stranger to a starved mind,
Force-feed our children grapes of wrath,
With liberation dead on the vine.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“After years in America it was sometimes difficult to fit in back home. Emigration had turned them into what sociologists would call 'marginal men', people suspended between two ways of life, belonging wholly to neither.”
― Maldwyn A. Jones , Destination America

“They do not know how you would wake up
in the middle of the night searching for home. And now your heart has made you feel that this new land us your home too.”
― Avijeet Das