The question of the stranger in a society which estranges…

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We have long had emigration in Ireland. But the nature of emigration has changed. With ferries to Britain and the continent, as well as…

— Mary Robinson

The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they…

— Francis Parkman

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the…

— Robert Southey

Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished…

— Daniel Boone

How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is…

— Daniel Alarcon

“I managed to convince myself that I’d left Bulgaria behind for good. I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as…

— Kapka Kassabova

The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

— Thomas Malthus

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

— Charles Sturt

“Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“Takes a special kind to go another kind to stay here … Nowhere do such patriots so embrace the leaving of the place”

— Kate Tough

Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from…

— Pope Francis

I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that,…

— Alfred Schnittke

“For me, therapy is partly translation therapy, the talking cure a second-language cure. My going to a shrink is, among other things, a rite…

— Eva Hoffman