Veils Quotes

342 Veils quotes by 272 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
To raise the veil. To see what you're saying goodbye to. — Louise GluÌˆck
Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking. — Amy Sedaris
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
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
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
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
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil. — R. D. Laing
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside. — Elie Wiesel

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