Refuge Quotes

“If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.”

“Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.”

“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”

“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 the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.”

“One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.”

“College is a refuge from hasty judgment.”

“Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment”

“Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.”

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

“The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I'm out there, no one can bother me.”

“[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.”

“Every man needs a place to go to.”

“Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.”

“How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?”

“In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum.”