#refuge

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anxiety #ideas #impersonal #philosophy #refuge

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#miserable #refuge #sex

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

— Franz Kafka

#flees #how #refuge #take #unless

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. ↗

— Milla Jovovich

#given #going #i #i think #idiotic

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself. More powerfully and persuasively than from the "shalt nots" of the Ten Commandments, I learned the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. A Wrinkle in Time described that evil, that wrong, existing in a different dimension from our own. But I felt that I, too, existed much of the time in a different dimension from everyone else I knew. There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books, a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I might be a newcomer but was never really a stranger. My real, true world. My perfect island. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#books #dreams #escape #journeys #life

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#business #characterized #childlike #flight #harsh

Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#million #palestinian #palestinian people #people #refugees

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#accounted #annoyed #dearest #free #i

We have a light upon our house, and it gives hope to all who sail upon the stormy seas. Do ya know what it means to have a light burning atop your home? It is safety, a place of refuge, seen by all that as a signal that ye stand for something greater than this world, greater than us all. ↗

— James Michael Pratt

#light #lighthouse #refuge #truth #home

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#immigration #refugees #diversity