refuge quotes

12 quotes

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Bertrand Russell

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Robert Frost

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

Maya Angelou

And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.

Kamala Harris

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Franz Kafka

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

Stephen King

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

George Bernard Shaw

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Aristotle

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle