Refuge Quotes
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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
It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.
— Steven Morrissey
Idleness is only the refuge of weakminds, and the holiday of fools. — Philip Dormer Stanhope
The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the poor.The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the needy in distress. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Your home is your refuge.
— George Carlin
Twilight is the refuge of the blue souls!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
— Max Frisch
Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.
— Ellen Meloy
I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.
— William Boyd
Great minds have no refuge; the world belongs to them.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
— Kingman Brewster Jr.
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
— Gottfried Leibniz
You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don't give up.
— Gautama Buddha
Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
is usually the refuge of incompetence." Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
— Garrett Schwanke
Art is man's refuge from adversity.
— Menander
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
— Emile M. Cioran
Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive.
— Michael Dirda
The beast retires to it's shelter, and the bird flies to it's nest; but the helpless man can only find refuge in his fellow creature.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The haunted always take refuge in stillness.
— Christina Dodd
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
— Henry S. Haskins
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.
— Gustave Flaubert
A person who is impartial, fair, calm, gentle, serene, accepting, and openhearted is indeed a refuge.
— Karen Armstrong
Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.
— Roger Cohen
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
— George Bernard Shaw
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
— Tony Wilson
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure
— Oscar Wilde
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 of the mind.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
the pursuit of experience is the refuge of the unimaginative.
— Hubert Crackanthorpe
Every place of refuge has its price.
— Eagles
Loss of safe harbor, refuge of grace, where loving-kindness rues one day like another.
— B.G. Brainard
Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?
— Pope John Paul II
And the least stupid, fleeing the herd where fate has penned them fast, take refuge in the wards of opium, so much for what is news around the world.
— Charles Baudelaire
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A writer's refuge is imagination and the possibilities it provides.
— Mark Rubinstein
Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
— Boies Penrose
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.
— Emile M. Cioran
The writer who has a definite meaning to express will not take refuge in such vagueness.
— William Strunk Jr.
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.
— Gautama Buddha
A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
— Erica Jong
For what shall we do when we wake one day to find we have lost touch with our heart and with it the very refuge where God's presence resides? a
— John Eldredge
Each positive thought is your refuge and your sanctuary, where in that thoughtful moment, you are safe.
— Bryant McGill
Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.
— Trenton Lee Stewart
It was as though she has found refuge inside a shell and the only sound she could hear was the sea of an inimical world.
— Milan Kundera
With night's Dim veil and blue
I will cover my eyes,
I will bind close my eyes that are
So weary. — Adelaide Crapsey
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
— Fernando Pessoa
I learned to take refuge in wherever the light is, because anything else is darkness that can pull you down deep.
— Helen Klein Ross
Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.
— Reb Anderson
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
— Helen Keller
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
— Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.
— Mark Twain
Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.
— Cassandra Clare
When you see the storm coming, if you seek safety in that firm refuge which is Mary, there will be no danger of your wavering or going down.
— Josemaria Escriva
Life is a love story, with every character yearning for permanent refuge in someone's heart.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
— Isaac Asimov
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.
— John Larkins
Be your own lamp, seek no other refuge but yourself, Let truth be your light." ~Buddha
— Buddha Monk
Your breaking point will be a bloody refuge, not a clean slate.
— Christina Hopp
Friendship, a dear balm...A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283
— Sonia Sotomayor
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
— Jesse Eisenberg
Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!
— Michael Crichton
For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.
— Max Muller
If a lion is not accepted in its own den, it will find no refuge in the rest of the jungle.
— Wes Fesler
Films are my way of passing the time; books are my passion, my true love. But music is my refuge.
— Melanie Raabe
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
— Dan Lipinski
The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
— Andrew Soutar
The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.
— Anthony Liccione
The argument that a particular project will be "self-financing" is usually the first refuge of politicians defending the indefensible.
— George F. Will
Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.
— Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter
