Refuge Quotes

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

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

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.