Veiled Quotes

71 quotes by 66 authors

The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after… — Milan Kundera
Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul. — Rumi
We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends. — Marjane Satrapi
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste… — Jon Krakauer
My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of… — Anais Nin
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born… — Victor Hugo
Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something… — Henry Rollins
December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad… — Siegfried Sassoon
Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print,… — Isabel Allende
Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste… — Milan Kundera
Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling,… — Susan Sontag
Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely… — Arundhati Roy
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our… — Alan Bennett
The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has… — Karl Marx
Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long… — Anne Frank
Master, I'm afraid. I am, truly. This place scares me. At home, I know who I am, what to do. I'm the Warden's daughter, I… — Catherine Fisher
The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war. — Winston Churchill
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy. — Noam Chomsky
Designers used to be kept behind veiled doors. Now they are often the faces of companies. — Charles Pelly

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