Refuge Quotes

464 Refuge quotes by 355 unique authors

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even… — Robert A. Heinlein
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love. — Tracy Letts
I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge… — Terry Tempest Williams
Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty. — Veronica Roth
No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet;… — Jose Rizal
Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the… — Kim Harrison
All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world. Perhaps not fully appreciated then, but so sweet in my memory, and now… — Suzanne Collins
I can hear them on the floor below. They will find me in miuntes, or seconds. I scrawl the words on a dirty shred of… — Stephenie Meyer
…You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself. — Guillaume Musso
The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can… — Tara Brach
For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and… — Susanna Kaysen
It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge. — Patrick SÃ¼skind
Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality — Mira Grant
In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of… — Tara Brach
Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with a singing in her heart… — Margaret Mitchell
At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid,… — Solomon Northup
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. — Oscar Wilde
The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and… — Mark Twain
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians. — Joseph J. Ellis
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. — Barbara Ehrenreich
If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but… — Ralph Barton Perry
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest. — Mark Twain
If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what… — Christopher Hitchens

Who Wrote These Refuge Quotes

355 authors contributed a total of 464 Refuge Quotes, led by these top contributors: