Refuge Quotes

464 Refuge quotes by 355 unique authors

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge. — Chris Cleave
Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from… — Chris Cleave
Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all… — Peter David
His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises… — J M Coetzee
Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your… — Elisabeth Elliot
When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where… — Muriel Barbery
I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled… — Diana Gabaldon
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that… — Gilles Deleuze
I wrap my arms around his neck, feel his arms hesitate before they embrace me. Not as steady as they once were, but still warm… — Suzanne Collins
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow… — Wendell Berry
I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge.… — Annie Dillard
As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six… — Edith Wharton
There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means… — John Ortberg
Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course,… — Jincy Willett
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Why else is politics the perfect refuge for every liar, cheat, and self-serving toad that was ever born? All you need is a good set… — Stuart Hill
Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. — Mitch Albom
From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own… — Sara Teasdale
To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul. German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you… — John le Carre
When the mind stops searching, when it stops wanting refuge, when it no longer goes in search of security, when it no longer craves more… — Samael Aun Weor
Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken… — Rachel Naomi Remen
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his… — Anais Nin
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk… — Umberto Eco
I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a… — Alain de Botton

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