Quotes About Displacement

I feel like a stranger in my own world.

But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.

The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,' she said. 'Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.

How do you go to your own house when something has gone bad on the inside, when it doesn't seem like your place to live anymore, when you almost cannot recall living there although it was the place you mostly ate and slept for all your grown-up life? Try to remember two or three things about living there. Try to remember cooking one meal.

The walls were dun and featureless, the furniture was arranged with all the homeyness of a second-hand sale-room and clothes were littered everywhere. It wasn't a room so much as a suitcase with doors.

They made Lennie feel like an actor who has wandered into the wrong play.

I'd feel equaly out of place anywhere

The winds of earth are old and sane But tell me, tell me when you know — What happens to a hurricane That hasn't any place to go?

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?

The moment you've uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you're already turning towards home.

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.