I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible…

To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought property. I…

— Pico Iyer

I think that foreignness is always with you. Indeed, I find California more foreign to me the longer I live here. In thirty years…

— Pico Iyer

“All really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home. -Gaston Bachelard”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and…

— Homer

“for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in…

— Homer

I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture.

— Hozier

“So, here you are too foreign for home too foreign for here. Never enough for both.”

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo

... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his…

— Evelyn Waugh

“But, you see, what I like about you is not that you feel foreign. And I don't think you ever did feel entirely foreign.…

— Herve Le Tellier

I think there's an interesting line drawn towards extreme environments, and the way I define extreme is through a sense of otherness. Or foreignness.

— Tavares Strachan

“Foreignness is intrinsically stimulating. Like a good game of bridge, the condition of being foreign engages the mind constantly without ever tiring it.”… …“But…

— Being foreign: The others-the Economist

“The negativity of otherness or foreignness is de-interiorized and transformed into the positivity of communicable and consumable difference: ‘diversity’.”

— Byung-Chul Han

“The spectacle of mass movement draws attention inevitably to the borders, the porous places, the vulnerable points where one's concept of home is seen…

— Toni Morrison

“he was no mountaineer when he decided to climb the Hindu Kush. A few days scrambling on the rocks in Wales, enchantingly chronicled here,…

— Eric Newby

When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness,…

— Naomi Klein