89 Quotes About Refuge

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

Any refuge that I create is something akin to a cardboard box in the rain. The harder the rain, the more boxes I go through.

Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.

The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.

My soul is utterly frantic for that single place of perfect refuge from which I can clearly see the winds rip and hear the tempest tear, yet despite the ferocity of the tumult I rest in such a sublime peace it is as if neither existed at all. And if I have not yet found such a place, it is because I have not yet found God.

As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970, she took refuge in her belief that she was making progress as a writer. But she realised that both systems of survival were, however, fundamentally illusory. She wrote, she said, quoting Oscar Wilde because, 'Work never seems to me a reality, but a way of getting rid of reality'.

What good is a dream that doesn’t test the mettle of the dreamer? What good is a path that doesn’t carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.