Quotes About Refuge

Through his honor I conquered him. For these peasants carry their honor in their hands so that they may constantly consult it; this same honor that once felt so much at home in the city but now has taken refuge in a more rural setting.

I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage.

Yo adoro los placeres sencillos. Son el último refugio de los hombres complicados.

The imagination can become our own free and wild territory. When all else fails, it can offer a refuge.

God is our refuge and strength, and ever-prethent help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountainth fall into the heart of the sea, though its waterth roar and foam and the mountains quake with their thurging.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Home should be an anchor, a port in a storm, a refuge, a happy place in which to dwell, a place where we are loved and where we can love.

"When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous have a refuge."

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.

It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.

When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

Everything out there was disturbingly interlaced with everything else. Waves were the playing field. They were the goal. They were the object of your deepest desire and adoration. At the same time, they were your adversary, your nemesis, even your mortal enemy. The surf was your refuge, your happy hiding place, but it was also a hostile wilderness—a dynamic, indifferent world.

They found my husband with his feet treading empty air, touching the soil of no country. 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 yourself. It's where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.

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 yourself. It's where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.

As he had all his life, Jack found refuge from his health worries in the power of words and ideas. Reading remained his salvation, and not just the daily newspapers that are the daily fare of most politicians. p108

The house must be a sanctuary.

the haunted always take refuge in stillness.

Mountains are alive; they have their rhythm and need rest … Mountains give us strength and provide a refuge. They are the realms of freedom.

comfort in the blithe superiority that is the refuge of the small.

The hawk was a fire that burned my hurts away. There could be no regret or mourning in her. No past or future. She lived in the present only, and that was my refuge. My flight from death was on her barred and beating wings. But I had forgotten that the puzzle that was death was caught up in the hawk, and I was caught up in it too.

There could be no regret or mourning in her. No past or future. She lived in the present only, and that was my refuge.

For a boy who always felt imperilled, that pitch-black cave was a refuge, and he returned to it in his imagination again and again.

And I too am not myself, hoping for refuge in a metaphor that will contain it all.