Refuge Quotes

464 Refuge quotes by 355 unique authors

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with… — W. Somerset Maugham
I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you… — Vladimir Nabokov
We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the… — Thomas Pynchon
In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create… — H P Lovecraft
Art still has truth. Take refuge there. — Matthew Arnold
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. — Henry James
Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt. — Cassandra Clare
I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well,… — Vladimir Nabokov
I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement. — William Boyd
Agreements. Specifically, a treaty ratified by all the orders of whimsical like forms who dwell here that affords a measure of security for mortal caretakers.… — Brandon Mull
They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot… — Bob Dylan
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is… — Alan Lightman
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it. — Ken Bruen
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge… — W. Somerset Maugham
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time. — Patrick Ness
Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you… — Mary Doria Russell
When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was… — Anne Michaels
Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has… — Gaston Bachelard
God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking… — John Piper
The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings. — John Piper
He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In… — Mitch Albom
Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity. — Tacitus
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. — Aristotle
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently… — Boris Pasternak

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