Shelter Quotes

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
― Lorrie Moore, Like Life

“When a storm of harassment disturbs our thinking and brings us down to our knees, the umbrella of our imagination can shield us against destructive aggression. It is offering shelter and is teaching us how to conquer ourselves, train our resilience, and grit our teeth. We better learn to adopt the virtue of endurance, as life consists of both ‘passion’ and ‘patience.’ ("The umbrella")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Don't let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter; the shade can turn out to be your protector and also your destroyer, and sometimes the rain is the perfect protector from the rain.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The road doesn’t seek refuge in any shelter it doesn’t settle at the behest of any command.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Shade for a man
And shelter for animals,
Planted in your name,
May you be the same for those around you,
Every year the same.”
― Nancy J. Cavanaugh, This Journal Belongs to Ratchet

“Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers." She slapped my back. "Welcome to high school.”
― Harlan Coben, Shelter

“As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Sweet girl, maybe close the world off and look at him for an hour
or two.
This is your fairy.
It ain’t perfect and it ain’t honey sweet with roses on the bed.
It’s real and raw and ugly at times. But this is your love.
Don’t throw it away searching for someone else’s love. Don’t be greedy. Instead, shelter it. Protect it. Capture every second of easy, pull through every storm of hardship. And when you can, look at him, lying next to you, trusting you not to harm him. Trusting you not to go.
Be someone’s someone for someone.
Be that someone for him.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Families are wonderful institution," he said. "I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual life to live, our own path to tread, our own destiny to forge. You can imagine, if you will, how my family wished to shelter and protect me and do my living for me so that I would never again know fear or pain or abandonment. Eventually I had to step clear of them-or I might have fallen into the temptation of allowing them to do just that.”
― Mary Balogh, Simply Love

“And what's more, he'll go and live with his friend unless his friend is allowed to come in and live with him...His friend must have a silk cushion just like his and sleep in your room too. Otherwise he will go and sleep in the coal-cellar with his friend”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

“They had slept in the shelter of the ruins, though neither of them really got true rest.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“I felt it shelter to speak to you. -Emily Dickinson”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“घरको छानो जति नै चुहिने भए पनि यसले रुखले भन्दा बढी ओत दिन्छ ।”
― Sanu Sharma, उत्सर्ग [Utsharga]

“Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.”
― Anthony Liccione

“They have hearts. I can feel them beating. So I will build them a home and haven, as none was built for me, and I will care for them as long as I am able.”
― Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found

“This is how the past interrupts our lives, all of it entering the same doorway--like the hole in the trunk of my neighbor's tree: at once a natural shelter, haven for small creatures, but also evidence of injury, an entrance for decay.”
― Natasha Trethewey, Monument: Poems New and Selected

“For most of her life, the outdoors had simply been something to shelter from whilst she got on with her reading.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Little Shop of Happily Ever

“If I had all the money in the world, I would still prefer a humble hut.
[ — July 14, 1955]”
― Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

“Don’t ask the name of anyone that asks you for shelter.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Only one who has removed his/her affinity from the mind can keep an eye on its every thought. The mind can only be conquered by one who has taken shelter of his Spiritual Guru.”
― Shri Hit Premanand Govind Sharan Ji Maharaj

“I gazed again at that sad, dark house- the place that had been a prison. Elain had said she missed it, and I wondered what she saw when she looked at the cottage. If she beheld not a prison but a shelter- a shelter from a world that had possessed so little good, but she tried to find it anyway, even if it had seemed foolish and useless to me.

She had looked at that cottage with hope; I had looked at it with nothing but hatred. And I knew which one of us had been stronger.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“A home is a source of safety and comfort.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Robertson also believes coorie is especially relevant in the winter when it suggests shelter.
"When it's cold, wet and windy outside, and night has fallen, there's nothing better than to be cooried in by the fireside," he adds.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“Grow where you're planted!”
― Deborah Dennis, Amazing Faith

“Carry no baggage, you cannot move forward living off the hurt from the past.”
― Deborah Dennis, Amazing Faith

“Finite Navigation by Stewart Stafford

Happiness is but a harbour in a storm;
Greater tempests lash far-off docks,
Gauntlets to run to the last port of call,
Never a permanent plateau of nirvana.

Life's weather patterns pivot and feint,
Everything beyond our fingertip reach,
If we go off course with coins on our eyes,
The rocks of avarice pace in ocean spray.

We set sail or get driven from our sanctuary,
Shelter granted at the behest of strangers,
Captains of our ship, La Mirage, wave dancing,
Mates and blood as crew, fish and fowl companions.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I was always a thing
that was going to happen to you,
the lightening that would strike
on a day that came
with no thunder,
and all the shelter
in all the world couldn't have
saved you.
I've been making my way
to you.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson

“The primordial instinct of every human being is to assure himself of a shelter. The various classes of workers in society to-day no long have dwellings adapted to their needs; neither the artizan nor the intellectual.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of to-day: architecture or revolution.”
― Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture