Veil Quotes

322 Veil quotes by 260 unique authors

One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a… — Anne Rice
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. — Anne Michaels
A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now… — Cecelia Ahern
A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see… — Alexandre Dumas
No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or… — J.R.R. Tolkien
You - will - never - touch - our - children - again!' screamed Mrs. Weasley. Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
...We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the veil-maker, the cake-maker,… — Linda Howard
Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch… — Oscar Wilde
It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes… — Lionel Shriver
When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a… — Unknown Author
Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn. — Khalil Gibran
Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a… — C.S. Lewis
His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and… — Darynda Jones
You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special… — Rachel Caine
The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.” “In prayer all are equal. — Unknown Author
My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence,… — Eudora Welty
The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, — Khalil Gibran
Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel that fire, the… — Jessica Sorensen
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden… — C.S. Lewis
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts… — C.S. Lewis

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