Life should just come back to me

Published on Dec 04, 2021

The migrant health clinic Christmas quoteshow 2021 with quotes by and about refugees

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Life should just come back again

The migrant health clinic christmas quoteshow 2021 with quotes from and about refugees
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Life just has to come back again - that's all I dream about

But what if I do not find a way to live?

My memory stick says it is full

there is no storage space left

The war

became a weird party in my head

Life here

is like being very close to an unattainable dream 

Before 1914

the world belonged to everybody
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In fact I would like to live alone in the wood

together with some chickens, donkeys and sheep
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They taught you about values. But those were values that did not fit into society

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I can't find my legs or my head

I lack structure
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People wanted you to feel bad, because they felt bad themselves - as if it helps to see other people feel the same way

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I'm a kiosk that has to close early everyday

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There was always war - war is more than bombs - you can be at war with yourself and with the whole world at the same time.

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You can't count my sleep

I constantly live in a world where things are mixed. We have our past, our present and future - everything is blended into a smoothie. It's all a mixture: you are divided between these times - it's all inside you.

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For a person that has lost a home country

writing is a place to live
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If you were hit by a bomb, you died instantly and entered paradise. In Denmark, no one helps each other and you die every day slowly from small bombs that just make one more disabled and sad.

It cost me10.000 $

to escpae from hell. That's fairly cheap wouldn't you say?
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You Danes have common problems you can solve. You just make a plan. But I do not make plans. I can only put out the fires that are constantly being lit in my life. I can not choose which problems I want to solve. They choose me.

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When I lie down to sleep

it is as if I prepare myself to go to war...every night

Home is not where you were born, home is where all your attempts to escape cease

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Any human has a voice

But you can be robbed the possibility to speak or you can be ignored
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In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, a word of truth sounds like a gunshot

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I have no questions

only pain
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You are not your age or your name. You are not your hair color or your accent. You are not your poverty. You are everything else.

When you have an infection you can be treated

when you have gangrene you have to be amputated - my past feels like gangrene
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You think your pain and heartache are unprecedented in world history, but then you read

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Hearing is one of the body's five senses

But listening is an art

By and large, healing is only possible between people in the same way that pain is only transmitted from person to person

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The world is formed by two things

- stories told and the memories they leave behind

I met my grandfather through my father's fist. I met my grandmother's neglect when I crawled to my mother like a dog after care

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Illness cannot exist without narrative

and stories are the currency of medicine
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No one dies so poor that they leave nothing

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Thanks to the brave patients who make us a little wiser about ourselves with their experiences

Other quotes by:
Stefan Zweig, Naguib Mahfouz, Frank Tyger, Czesław Miłosz, James Baldwin, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, Vera Nazarian, Alexandre Nsoni, Zachary G. Jacobs

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Greetings from all of us at the Migrant Health clinic to all of you
2021

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