Veils Quotes
342 Veils quotes by 272 unique authors
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It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all…
— Anne Rice
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Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless…
— Stephen King
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I can't imagine pain greater than stepping across the veil and realizing I had not done what I came here to do - or realizing…
— Sheri L. Dew
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings...
— William Butler Yeats
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Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a…
— William Butler Yeats
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It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as…
— Emily Dickinson
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To raise the veil. To see what you're saying goodbye to.
— Louise Glück
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Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.
— Amy Sedaris
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How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas?…
— Alexander Shulgin
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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the…
— Oscar Wilde
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The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very…
— Orhan Pamuk
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If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.
— R. D. Laing
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I…
— Joseph Conrad
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Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came…
— Evelyn Waugh
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through…
— Victor Hugo
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It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was…
— Virginia Woolf
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The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my…
— Marjane Satrapi
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Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through…
— David Wroblewski
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Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.
— Elie Wiesel
Who Wrote These Veils Quotes
272 authors contributed a total of 342 Veils Quotes, led by these top contributors: