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Quotes About Sanctuary

People ask all the time, "What are you thinking?" It's my least favorite question in the world. The last bastion of solace is my mind. It's an invasion.
~ Charlie Sheen
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will get shushed, in the friendliest way. I have found sanctuary in libraries my whole life, and there is sanctuary there now, from the war, from the storms of our families and our own minds. Libraries are like mountains or meadows or creeks: sacred space. So this afternoon, I'll walk to the library.
~ Anne Lamott
I read more than other kids; I luxuriated in books. Books were my refuge.
~ Anne Lamott
I left the splendid city of Venice with her glittering palaces and I withdrew to the chilly mountain sanctuary, and I knew that the fate of Amadeo was sealed.
~ Anne Rice
Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito...
~ Sherman Alexie
I know everything about everything and before I dry off completely, which is something I truly hate, you better go outside, collect Trates, and have both your asses out of here or I'm going to lose what little patience I have. You will play by the rules I've set up for sanctuary, or I'll use your entrails for armbands. (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
What' cha doing out here all alone? Did you forget how to find Sanctuary? (Simi) No. I want to be alone for a bit. (Gallagher) Why? Were the bears mean to you? Mama can get a bit cranky whenever I play with the cubs. She thinks I'm going to eat one, but bleh! They're way too hairy. Now if she'd let me skin one, I might be interested. (Simi) Are you joking? (Gallagher) Oh no. I never joke about hairy food. (Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sanctuary, home of the Howlers and stragglers of the Were universe. (Damien)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And you must be the cause of this disaster." – Sasha "I didn't do anything." – Abigail "She's in denial." – Sundown "Cool. We can feed her to the coyotes then, and I can go back to Sanctuary and continue scoping out this amazing brunette who keeps coming in with her friends." – Sasha
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
~ Ellen Glasgow
It's like coming back to the womb. I'm coming back to my mum and it's wonderful to see her. It's the best space in the world. If it wasn't for this place I don't know what I'd have done with my life.
~ Pete Postlethwaite
When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.
~ Simon R. Green
Home is the sacred refuge of our life.
~ John Dryden
I see you kneeling in church—stained only by colored windows
~ john j geddes
The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it
~ John Lubbock
Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word. . . .that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
All she really wanted was to go to her apartment, to her bedroom, to the back of her walk-in closet, to sit among the shoes.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
You could say she hid there, in the words, an escape within an escape...
~ Aurelie Sheehan
A temple, first of all, is a place of prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy sanctuary--a temple.
~ B.H. Roberts
You see colors no one else can see In every breath you hear a symphony You understand me like nobody can I feel like my soul unfolding like a flower blooming When this whole world gets too crazy And there's nowhere left to go I know you give me sanctuary You're the only truth I know You're the road back home.
~ Backstreet Boys
The Sanctuary at Two Rivers offers a much needed escape or retreat from the fast paced, modern lifestyle we have all become accustomed to, with its exquisite beauty, serenity, and raw nature. Costa Rica was the perfect place for developing such an important project.
~ Perrey Reeves
I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
~ Lisa Ling
Home is like my detox: it's what keeps me grounded.
~ Mj Rodriguez
And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven's Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. —Hebrews 10:19
~ Gary Chapman