"Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time,……" — Pico Iyer
"Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith."
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100 Quotes by Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer has 100 quotes on this site.
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Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
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We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall…
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it…
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Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is…
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My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and…
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Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
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Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's…
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None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could…
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Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are…
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Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
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One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
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For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of…
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More Apart Quotes
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog,…
— Iain Banks
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If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us…
— Joey Adams
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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
— Jeremy Bentham
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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to…
— Annie Besant
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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
— George Best
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
— Aeschylus
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What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it…
— Andrea Bocelli
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