Veils Quotes · Page 4

“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in…

— Marjane Satrapi

Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.

— Jean Racine

Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We…

— Anonymous

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your…

— Eckhart Tolle

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.

— Sappho

I first heard "Heaven Without a Gun" when Kevin [Drew] sent it to me, and there was this kind of beauty about…

— Andy Kim

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.

— Douglas Horton

Lovers drink wine all day and night and tear the veils of the mind. When drunk with love's wine, body, heart and…

— Rumi

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

— Florence Welch

All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know,…

— James Mattis

To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like…

— Victor Hugo

The veils have become very thin and we are now able to access a large part of our sacredness - and we…

— Christine McCormick Day

Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

— Gabriela Mistral

There are just too many opportunities - and an increasing number of them - to hide systemic, institutional wrongdoing behind legal veils,…

— Chelsea Manning

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

— Paul Gauguin

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

— Idries Shah

In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

— Khalil Gibran

I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous…

— Fergus Henderson

China seems unpredictable because it has a distinct culture and social system. It is still a mystery to other parts of the…

— Ai Weiwei

All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to…

— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly,…

— Virginia Woolf

The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in…

— John Carroll