34 Quotes About Emigration

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

La inmigración es un hecho. España ha sido un país de emigrantes y ahora también de inmigrantes. Hemos emigrado con orden y concierto, respetando la legalidad de los países a los que hemos ido, y hemos recibido inmigración con desorden y desconcierto.

Keista, kai gali akimirksniu pasiekti visą pasaulį, bet žmonės dėl to tik dar labiau nutolsta.

...on n'est pas forcément du pays où l'on est né. Il y a des grains que le vent aime semer ailleurs.

Aunt Fostalina says when she first came to America she went to school during the day and worked nights at Eliot’s hotels, cleaning hotel rooms together with people from countries like Senegal, Cameroon, Tibet, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and so on. It was like the damn United Nations there, she likes to say.

Die Emigration kann ein Zeichen der Stärke oder der Schwäche einer Nation sein.

when she looked longer at herself in her new dress, it was she but she living a different life, the life she would have lived if she had stayed in Prague.

The gigantic invisible broom that transforms, disfigures, erases landscapes has been at the job for millennia now, but its movements, which used to be slow, just barely perceptible, have sped up so much that I wonder: Would an Odyssey even be conceivable today? Is the epic of the return still pertinent to our time?

Emigration does not only involve leaving behind, crossing water, living amongst strangers, but, also, undoing the very meaning of the world and—at its most extreme—abandoning oneself to the unreal which is the absurd. […] to emigrate is always to dismantle the center of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.