Quotes About Sanctuary

I like home. It's warm and there are books.

The home of everyone is to him his castle and fortress as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.

Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing

For a man's home is his castle.

Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.

Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that; but some place set apart for it.

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.

Home is important. Its important to have a home.

I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.

My television is the tabernacle.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

Every Place where we feel safety is a Treasure. Jan Jansen

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a book.

A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.

If I could have my life over again, I would devote it not to art or literature, but to language. Life itself may hit one hard, but always, always one can take sanctuary in language. Language is as much an art and as sure a refuge as paint¬ ing or music or literature. It reflects and interprets and makes bearable life; only it is a wider, because more subconscious, life.

Home is supposed to be a place of security, the last resort of refuge."

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot and corruption of capitalist exploitation. Churches the illusion of sacred sanctuary of purposes of pacifying social discontent. Courtrooms of course designed to promote the illusion of solemn justice. If there was true justice why would such trappings be necessary? Wouldn't a table and chairs and an ordinary room serve just as well?

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Since then there has been no farther communication between them, and he had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings

Perhaps she too had kept her memory of him as something apart; but if she had, it must have been like a relic in a small dim chapel, where there was not time to pray every day...