Shroud Quotes

57 Shroud quotes by 51 unique authors

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. — Milan Kundera
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. — Walt Whitman
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses;… — Charlotte Bronte
Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me. — Jerry Spinelli
But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of… — Steve Almond
When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of… — Julia Kristeva
Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel… — William Shakespeare
Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind. — Stephen Crane
We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and… — Gustave Flaubert
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There… — Robert Penn Warren
Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I… — Rabindranath Tagore
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison,… — Charles Dickens
THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling… — Jed Rubenfeld
It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me… — Robert Penn Warren
When life backs you into a corner and offers you no escape, when your friends, your lover, and your family abandon you, when you're at… — Ilona Andrews
The worst part was the silence. Death was supposed to be loud — gunshots, explosions, screams and thunder. Not this eerie quiet that wrapped around… — Karen Chance
I turned and faced the Olympians. "We need a shroud," I announced, my voice cracking. "A shroud for the son of Hermes. — Rick Riordan
And the great spirit of darkness spread a shroud over me...everything was silent-everything. But upon the heights soughed the everlasting song, the voice of the… — Knut Hamsun
The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud. — J. G. Ballard
Rachel,” came a raspy voice from the upper level, and both Trent and I turned. It was Quen, wrapped in a blanket as if it… — Kim Harrison
Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you wind, be soft… — Maya Angelou
We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes. — Rick Riordan
When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother… — Helen Hunt Jackson
Reality is a puzzle revealing itself one portion at a time, always where the deepest shroud falls. Wanting to piece the clues together, you are… — Mariana Fulger

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