Veils Quotes
342 Veils quotes by 272 unique authors
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All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high points. They lack…
— Harlan Ellison
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If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves..." If the veil were rent today, and the great God who…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a…
— S. J. Perelman
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The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by…
— C.S. Lewis
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I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full pursuit of pleasure.…
— Richard G. Scott
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Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and…
— Eugene O'Neill
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Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the…
— Marcel Proust
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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
Who Wrote These Veils Quotes
272 authors contributed a total of 342 Veils Quotes, led by these top contributors: