Quotes About Displacement

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

Churches and trains they all look the same to me now they shoot you some place while we ache to come home somehow.

You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

Left right left right. We're army ants. We swarm we fight. We have no home. We roam. We race. You're lucky if we miss your place.

They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone.

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

My name is Carter Kane. I'm fourteen and my home is a suitcase.

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

I never had a sense of home.

This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn't frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

She remembered the old man in the bar in the Mission District telling her, 'We are the biggest tribe of all, us displaced ones, us urban Indians, us sidewalk redskins.

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.

The storm in our private lives had picked him up and put him out of place. Me, too. I, too, had been picked up from one place and set down in another. I, too, had been stranded. We both needed help resettling.

You are always trying to get "home" but never feel at home.

More than six out of ten runaways from the Balls and their peers had been born in Africa.

The specific difference between sf and other estranging genres, such as fantasy, is that sf's displacements must be logically consistent and methodical; in fact, they must be scientific to the extent that they imitate, reinforce and illuminate the process of scientific cognition.

The problem will be solved only in blood and fire. The Jews will soon be driven out.