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Top 10 Dina Nayeri Quotes (2025 Update)

Dina Nayeri Quote: “And here is the biggest lie in the refugee crisis. It isn’t the faulty individual stories. It is the language of disaster often used to describe incoming refugees – deluge or flood or swarm. These words are lies.”

1. “And here is the biggest lie in the refugee crisis. It isn’t the faulty individual stories. It is the language of disaster often used to describe incoming refugees – deluge or flood or swarm. These words are lies.”

— Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri Quote: “Home is never the same for anyone not just refugees. You go back and find that you have grown and so has your country. Home is gone. It lives in the mind. Time exiles us all from our childhood.”

2. “Home is never the same for anyone not just refugees. You go back and find that you have grown and so has your country. Home is gone. It lives in the mind. Time exiles us all from our childhood.”

— Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri Quote: “It is the obligation of every person born in a safer room to open the door when someone in danger knocks.”

3. “It is the obligation of every person born in a safer room to open the door when someone in danger knocks.”

— Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri Quote: “I am standing on a thin border between past and future. Waiting for madness to come.”

4. “I am standing on a thin border between past and future. Waiting for madness to come.”

— Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri Quote: “The waiting began to take its toll. It’s a terrifying place. Pressure from the past, pressure from the future. They say too much of either is a mental illness. The future brings anxiety because you don’t belong and can’t move forward. The past brings depression because you can’t go home. Your memories fade and everything you know is gone.”

5. “The waiting began to take its toll. It’s a terrifying place. Pressure from the past, pressure from the future. They say too much of either is a mental illness. The future brings anxiety because you don’t belong and can’t move forward. The past brings depression because you can’t go home. Your memories fade and everything you know is gone.”

— Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri Quote: “We drift from the safe places of our childhood. There is no going back. Like stories, villages and cities are always growing or fading or melding into each other. We are all immigrants from the past, and home lives inside the memory, where we lock it up and pretend it is unchanged.”

6. “We drift from the safe places of our childhood. There is no going back. Like stories, villages and cities are always growing or fading or melding into each other. We are all immigrants from the past, and home lives inside the memory, where we lock it up and pretend it is unchanged.”

— Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri Quote: “The mystic Al-Ghazali said that the inhabitants of heaven remain forever thirty-three. It reminds me of Iran, stuck in 1976 in the imagination of every exile. Iranians often say that when they visit Tehran or Shiraz or Isfahan, they find even the smallest changes confusing and painful – a beloved corner shop gone to dust, the smell of bread that once filled a street, a rose garden neglected. In their memories, they always change it back. Iran is like an aging parent, they say.”

7. “The mystic Al-Ghazali said that the inhabitants of heaven remain forever thirty-three. It reminds me of Iran, stuck in 1976 in the imagination of every exile. Iranians often say that when they visit Tehran or Shiraz or Isfahan, they find even the smallest changes confusing and painful – a beloved corner shop gone to dust, the smell of bread that once filled a street, a rose garden neglected. In their memories, they always change it back. Iran is like an aging parent, they say.”

— Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri Quote: “In war, villainy and good change hands all the time, like a football.”

8. “In war, villainy and good change hands all the time, like a football.”

— Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri Quote: “You can’t fight instinct. You can’t teach genuine restraint. I got my instincts from a man whose supply of restraint was as limited and unpredictable as the supply of black market music tapes or the last stash of sour cherries in the freezer.”

9. “You can’t fight instinct. You can’t teach genuine restraint. I got my instincts from a man whose supply of restraint was as limited and unpredictable as the supply of black market music tapes or the last stash of sour cherries in the freezer.”

— Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri Quote: “They don’t like the damaged, I wanted to say, especially if they think the disease is in your mind. Trust me, the Americans and the English, they like triumphant stories. They want to be a part of the stories. They want to find excellent people, luminaires, pluck them out of hell, knead them flawless. They want to congratulate themselves for something remarkable. Keep yourself undamaged.”

10. “They don’t like the damaged, I wanted to say, especially if they think the disease is in your mind. Trust me, the Americans and the English, they like triumphant stories. They want to be a part of the stories. They want to find excellent people, luminaires, pluck them out of hell, knead them flawless. They want to congratulate themselves for something remarkable. Keep yourself undamaged.”

— Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri Quote: “Every true story has strangeness, things that can only happen to those people at that time – the unbiased listen for it, trying to imagine an unknown world. But the biased look only for familiar oddities, the ones that match and validate their own story.”

11. “Every true story has strangeness, things that can only happen to those people at that time – the unbiased listen for it, trying to imagine an unknown world. But the biased look only for familiar oddities, the ones that match and validate their own story.”

— Dina Nayeri

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