"Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on……" — Pico Iyer
"Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply."
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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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Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
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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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More Away Now Quotes
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The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know…
— Unknown Author
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It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.
— Alan Bean
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If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of…
— Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
— Philip Larkin
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Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again…
— Jonathan Coe
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We're gonna get weaker. That's already happened. They used to say, you know, an apple a day keeps the doctor…
— Karl Pilkington
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And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to…
— Barack Obama
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I'm lonely. What kind of loneliness? Every kind. I feel disconnected. Abandoned. As always. Repetition. So what, my love? So…
— Daul Kim
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If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now…
— Terry Brooks
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How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all…
— William Cowper
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Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
— Rumi
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