Refuge Quote by Patrick Süskind

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own…

— Alice Hoffman

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

— Albert Camus

I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable,…

— Edward Abbey

You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.

— Isabel Wilkerson

I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.

— Chris Offutt

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

— William Golding

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

— Oscar Wilde

We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.

— Indira Gandhi

I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my…

— Portia de Rossi

Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world.

— Judith Kelman

I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love…

— Frederick Lenz