Expatriate Quotes

#1. The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

Adam Gopnik

#2. I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

Mick Jagger

#3. It's hard to describe being an expatriate of sorts to people who've never lived overseas, but when you're an American living in a geographically separated region within a country like Korea, you form bonds with people who you'd never associate with stateside.

Tucker Elliot

#4. Exile, like memory, may be a place of hope and delusion. But there are rules of light there and principles of darkness ... The expatriate is in search of a country, the exile in search of a self. - Eavan Boland, OBJECT LESSONS

Kathleen Norris

#5. I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.

Bharati Mukherjee

#6. I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

James Hillman

#7. The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.

Paul Theroux

#8. All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence.

Isabel Allende

#9. I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.

Chang-rae Lee

#10. I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

Paul Auster

#11. I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.

Jarvis Cocker

#12. My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.

Eleanor Catton

#13. You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.

Ernest Hemingway,

#14. If you are having sex with someone who is not on the same frequency that you are on, it can be very problematic. The greatest karmic transfer occurs in having sex with someone.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Sometimes I long to forget ... It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.

Eva Hoffman

#16. One day I hope to open my own day-care center. My passion for kids is through the roof.

Cam Newton

#17. Apollo had said he knew what this kind of love was capable of. And I finally understood why Paris had risked his country and his blood for Helen. Selfish, yes, but I understood. I would burn the world if that meant Alex would be safe.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#18. You never chased a sentient into his own environment unless you absolutely had to and you had sufficient forces to handle ten times the force you could see. Break that rule at your peril, as the poor screaming bastard in the water was now learning.

Evan Currie

#19. If you are a Christian, your search for approval should be over.

David Jeremiah

#20. It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

Sarah Turnbull

#21. Ellie: "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil."
Richard: "Good will triumph over evil."
Ellie: "Liar.

Joan Bauer