Shroud Quotes

57 quotes by 52 authors

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. — Honore de Balzac
I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts. — Lord Byron
The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are 'age appropriate.' For me that would be a shroud. — Joan Rivers
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
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. — Sophocles
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself. — M. Night Shyamalan
Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud. — William H. Calvin
Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud. — Langston Hughes
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
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
No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed. — Ogden Nash
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
You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud. — Elsie de Wolfe
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
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
Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain. — Anna Seward
What we want now is an immense awakening of RÃ¢jasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas. The people of… — Swami Vivekananda
Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadsideâ€”are the Night's Innumerable… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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
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

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