Immigration Quote by Bohumil Hrabal

“I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself,…

— Alison Singh Gee

“I meditated on the nature of friendship as I practiced the craft. My friends had always come from outside the mainstream. I had always…

— Pat Conroy

“I looked at these refugees--and the for the first time, let myself really see them. Their faces felt familiar to me, somehow. The pain…

— Nicole Perlman

“But to sever all your connections, professional as well as personal..." Lib fumbled for words. "Wouldn't it be like a little death?" Byrne nodded.…

— Emma Donoghue

“Needless to say, it was inconceivable that I would be welome in, let alone invited to, their home. It was as well, then, that…

— David Liss

“What I really wanted — and needed — were friends of my own. People who would like and accept me for myself. Once”

— Joanna Campbell Slan

“Once I had put enough distance between myself and where I grew up, I started to see its beauty. I started to see it…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

“But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

— James Joyce

“So I forced myself to step out of my comfort zone and go out and connect with people. I realised that no one knew…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their own country,…

— Maxim Gorky

“I was not meant to live anywhere except in Paradise. Such, simply, was my genetic inadaptation. Here on earth every prick of a rose-thorn…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“I have made all sorts of acquaintances, but have as yet found no society. I know not what attraction I possess for the people,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe