Shroud Quotes
57 quotes by 52 authors
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
— Honore de Balzac
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
— Lord Byron
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The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are 'age appropriate.' For me that would be a shroud.
— Joan Rivers
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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
— Sophocles
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
— M. Night Shyamalan
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Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.
— William H. Calvin
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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
— Langston Hughes
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Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and the great…
— Moby
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When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts,…
— Matthew Scully
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No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.
— Ogden Nash
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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign…
— John Donne
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You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.
— Elsie de Wolfe
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Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread…
— Mark Lawrence
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The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to…
— Elizabeth Lesser
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Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
— Anna Seward
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What we want now is an immense awakening of Râjasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas. The people of…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting presence.…
— Joyce Tenneson
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When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in…
— John Keats
Who Wrote These Shroud Quotes
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