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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“Even if the roof of a house leaks a lot, it still provides more shelter than a tree.”
― Sanu Sharma, विप्लवी [Biplavi]

“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 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

“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

“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

“Like most species, we have come to expect that we shall wake up more or less where we fell asleep. We associate the night with being static, becalmed. We might toss and turn a bit, and some may even sleepwalk. But as a rule it is the one period in each 24-hour shift when our frenzied movements hither and yon come to a halt. Hence there is something indefinably sneaky about popping up somewhere in the morning at a location that bears little relation to the one we were inhabiting the night before. It is perhaps the nearest most of us come to performing a magic trick.”
― Dixe Wills, At Night: A Journey Round Britain from Dusk Till Dawn

“Never underestimate the value of a tree or your mother; you never know when you might need their shade and shelter.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Our Nepal, Our Pride

“Sometimes language is all we have, and poetry has proven time and again to be a great equalizer, transformer, and community-builder. Especially during the pandemic, many people found shelter in poetry as a way to process personal and collective traumas. Poetry that offers sustenance or healing, or that inspires during a time of major upheaval, often has the power to bring people together, to initiate change, or to call forth action.”
― Aileen Cassinetto

“The basic needs of every human being include food, water, shelter, love, security, and a sense of belonging. If you can meet these needs without complaining, you will live peacefully, successfully, and joyfully.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success

“During the brief war with Iran, I found myself several times trapped in the neighborhood bomb shelter with people I barely knew. It was stressful. The missiles were frightening, but there was something straightforward and clear about them. People, on the other hand, are a lot more ambiguous and confusing, especially when they’re crammed into a small, closed space, listening to sirens and explosions on the other side of a concrete wall. But the explosive reality outside the shelter was soon forgotten, replaced by an unpleasant group dynamic that reminded me of a bad high school field trip: Who ends up sitting in the unsafe spot right opposite the door? When are we allowed to open it and leave? How do I get away from the sweaty neighbor who keeps checking his WhatsApp updates? And how the hell do you explain to the sad French Bulldog who’s in love with your left leg that you’re a happily married man? And yet all these worries, exasperating though they are, pale in comparison with the one really important question: When the missile attack finally ends and we open that steel door, what kind of world will be waiting for us out there?”
― Etgar Keret