Emotional Refuge Quotes

I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid.

Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. During lunch hour at school I'd avoid social interactions by sitting on the bathroom sink and reading. My mother worked in my school cafeteria. When my anxiety got really bad, I'd put a coat on, grab my book and a flashlight, and hide in the freezer with the mac and cheese.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality.

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

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

A lot of the issues I faced in junior high was what got me into animation. It was easier to sit on the side and draw cartoons than to engage with people.

We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow

I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

No one is depressed when they're asleep, which is why being in bed is such a safe place if you're really down.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Movies were, to me, like a way out. It was an escape valve. I remember having my parents drop me off at movies all the time.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

I bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time with my family.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me - the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

When I read books it's to escape. It's so I don't have to talk to people.

Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.

My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable. The Arthur Ransome books gave me an alternative childhood and the tools to escape.