"Emigration is no longer a solution; it’s a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they’re knocking on doors that are not open."
― Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Death
More From Tahar Ben Jelloun
- "It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn."
- "Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words."
- "I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It’s not very funny, but it’s sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."
More In Death
- "Imagination comes of not having things."― LeRoy Neiman
- "You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that’s the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That’s the American story, again and again."― Billy Corgan
- "Call no man happy till he is dead."― Aeschylus