Dissident Quote by Ha Jin

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

— Suketu Mehta

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

— Azar Nafisi

No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists.

— Orhan Pamuk

I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign places. I…

— Pico Iyer

“Being an immigrant is not a status but a state of mind. It doesn’t stop when you “assimilate” or “integrate” or when you go…

— Stewart Stafford

I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.

— Louise Erdrich

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

— Ambrose Bierce

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

— Siobhan Fahey

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant…

— Isabel Allende

When you come back to a country that you've left, you're in a very peculiar situation because, in a way, you don't belong to…

— Gabriel Byrne

I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

— Laura Z. Hobson

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed…

— Joseph O'Neill