Quotes About Displacement

When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.

Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result of this horrific storm.

The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.

I feel like I'm a time traveler from the future who has been sent back to be annoyed.

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

People who travel are always fugitives.

do you think you can really run away from home, when you don't know where home is anymore?

A veces morir es simplemente irse de un lugar, abandonar a todas las personas y las costumbres que uno quiere. Por ese motivo el exiliado que no desea morir sufre, pero el exiliado que busca la muerte, encuentra lo que antes no había conocido: la ausencia del dolor en un mundo ajeno." —La continuación

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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

All immigration is based on misapprehension.

I too have known the inward disturbance of exile, The great peril of being at home nowhere, The dispersed center, the dividing love; Not here, nor there, leaping across ocean, Turning, returning to each strong allegiance; American, but with this difference - parting.

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.

He could not make Arkansas fit his soul's desolation.

She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.

This is a book about finding your way home—from wherever you are. It's for homesick people, eager and restless to find that place called home, even—especially—if they're not certain where home is anymore.

Keegan: You feel at home in the world then? Broadbent: Of course. Don't you? Keegan ( from the very depths of his nature): No. John Bull's Other Island

This town) doesn't look like anything; it isn't anything. Its five tin-roofed huts cling to the skinny tracks of the Uganda Railway like parasites on a vine.

Only then did I realise that for me, and many others, Israel was virtual. For Murad, Israel was 'home.' Israel was a reality; a harsh reality.