Veiled Quotes

71 quotes by 66 authors

Accident is veiled necessity. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death. — Milan Kundera
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle — Terence McKenna
Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that is… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him… — Fethullah Gulen
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned… — Virginia Woolf
No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for… — Allen Ginsberg
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last… — David Mamet
Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition… — Frederick Lenz
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action --… — Jesse Jackson
Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples… — Lucretius
How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is. — Quincy Jones
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens… — Immanuel Kant
Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it… — Ray Bradbury
He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams. — Virginia Woolf
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It… — Franz Kafka
If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough. — Daniel Handler

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