Exotic Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image “What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exotic Home Hunger May Vain
abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
You're traveling all over the world but to be home is something special. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas. — Larry David Copy Share Image
We all want to be carried away to a whole other world and have romantic tendencies about escaping to an exotic place and being… — Lotte Verbeek Copy Share Image
I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
Is there any point in going across the world to eat something or buy something or watch people squatting among their ruins? Travel is… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Me being so comfortable being abroad is due to the fact I've always been away from home. — Jadon Sancho Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Hey Sydney," she said, giving me a small, crooked smile as she entered the room. Her flashing, dark eyes were friendly, but they were… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system? — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
As soon as I came to L.A., I was told that I was exotic. I'd think, But I'm from Miami! I'm as American as… — Genesis Rodriguez Copy Share Image
SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
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