Quotes About Refugee Life

#1. Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.

Uma Krishnaswami

#2. There's no such thing as a young refugee; every migrant has a past they've fled from, and how can you be young when you already have one life behind you?

Lev Golinkin

#3. Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.

Nancy Gibbs

#4. I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!

Lawrence Durrell

#5. In the late 1940s, Saunders had tended to a Jewish refugee from Warsaw dying of cancer in London. The man had left Saunders his life savings - £500 - with a desire to be "a window in [her] home."577

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#6. I have taken many lives in my life. Many children, perhaps husbands, wives, parents. Perhaps it is only just that this same violation was inflicted upon me. Perhaps it is just that one who lives a life of war becomes a refugee from it.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#7. If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's working, see what her daily life is like, and try to pack that into one composition, with nice light, in one frame.

Lynsey Addario

#8. A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself.

Poul Hartling

#9. wish I could just run barefoot in every refugee camp
and hold every child,
cover their ears
so they wouldn't have to hear the sound of bombing
for the rest of their life the way I do..

Rafeef Ziadah

#10. I have lived my life defined as a refugee in Nepal and India, a resident alien and immigrant in the United States. At last, I am a Tibetan in Tibet, a Khampa in Kham, albeit as a tourist in my occupied and tethered country.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#11. I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family.

Isabel Allende

#12. Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings.

Gerald Durrell

#13. Because of our fear that we are merely excited matter and the consequent grudge that we hold against the universe, we feel lost and alienated, like a refugee far from home in a universe that cares nothing for us.

Eric Maisel