Refuge is a place or state of safety. It may also refer to a more specific meaning:
- Area of refuge, a location in a building that may be used by occupants in the event of a fire
- Mountain hut, a shelter for travelers in mountainous areas, often remote
- Women's refuge, another term for women's shelter
- Refuge (United Kingdom charity), a British charity for female victims of domestic violence
- A place intended to shelter cultural property, in the context of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
- Wildlife refuge, a sanctuary or protected area for wildlife
- Refuge (population biology), a location of an isolated or relict population of a previously more widespread species
- A controversial evangelical Christian "ex-gay" conversion therapy program for homosexual teenagers run by Love In Action
- Refuge (Buddhism), the basis of being a Buddhist
- Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, a book by Terry Tempest Williams
- Refuge Records, a record label in the 1980s
- An 1999 episode of the TV series Law & Order
- Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Refuge, a 1988 novel by Rob Chilson
- "The Refuge" (The Outer Limits), an episode of the television series
- Refuge crop, a non-genetically modified food crop planted alongside a genetically modified one to prevent or slow the development of predators resistant to its modified properties by purposely encouraging the mating of species across said crops
- The Refuge (film), a 2009 French drama directed by François Ozon
- Right of asylum, protection of a person persecuted for political or religious beliefs by another sovereign authority
- Refuge (ecology), a place where an organism can escape from predation
Famous quotes containing the word refuge:
“I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)