quotes about Refuge
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
-- Aaron Allston -
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
-- Agathon -
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
-- Albert Camus -
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
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Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.
-- C. L. R. JamesSource : "The Black Jacobins". Book by C. L. R. James, 1963.
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Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
-- Charles Bartlett Johnson -
Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge.
-- Chiune Sugihara -
So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.
-- Chris Cleave -
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...the haunted always take refuge in stillness.
-- Christina Dodd -
Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.
-- Ernest BramahSource : Ernest Bramah (1936). “The Kai Lung Omnibus”
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Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.
-- Georges Duhamel -
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The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.
-- Gerard De Nerval -
You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.
-- Guillaume Musso -
I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.
-- Ibn Ata Allah -
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There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
-- Ken BruenSource : Ken Bruen (2015). “The Jack Taylor Series, Books 1-3: The Guards, The Killing of the Tinkers, and The Magdalen Martyrs”, p.375, Macmillan
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If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.Source : The New York Tribune, October 14, 1963.
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There is no refuge from yourself.
-- Matt RasmussenSource : Matt Rasmussen, “Elegy In X Parts [Kafka Said, A Book]”
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Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
-- Neal Boortz -
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
-- Oscar Wilde -
It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.
-- Patrick Süskind -
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He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.
-- PhiloSource : "Legum allegoriarum" by Philo. Book III, 29,
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Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations.
-- Saint Boniface -
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
-- Toni Morrison -
Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.
-- Veronica Roth -
Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.
-- William Plomer -
Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.
-- Comtesse Diane -
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Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One of the reasons I've felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it's the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely.
-- Ada LimonSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com