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Life’s no resting, but a moving.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795

I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.

—Simone Weil, 1943

Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?

—Georg Büchner, 1835

Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.

—Frantz Fanon, 1961

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

—Gregory VII, c. 1085

The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.

—Suketu Mehta, 2019

Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?

—Heinrich Heine, 1827

It was lonesome, the leaving.

—Wetatonmi, c. 1877

They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.

—Virgil, c. 30 BC

Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

—Arnold Toynbee, 1948

Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.

—German proverb