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Quotes About Veiled

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.
~ Louis Bayard
Shrouded in a thick veil
~ Louisa May Alcott
Y se hubiera creído que eran sollozos los espasmos repentinos que sacudían el pecho de aquellas mujeres si sus pupilas, tercamente fijas en el altar, no estuvieran veladas
~ Rosario Castellanos
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there's somebody nobody knows about.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
This was the virtue of the dark: you were who you had always been, only no one could see you.
~ Alice Hoffman
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
People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.
~ Catherine Deneuve
The things we see are only masks for the things we can't see.
~ Anthony Doerr
Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida esté dispuesto, siempre en toda plenitud, alrededor de cada uno, pero cubierto de un velo, en las profundidades, invisible, muy lejos. Sin embargo está ahí, no hostil, no a disgusto, no sordo, viene si uno lo llama con la palabra correcta, por su nombre correcto. Es la esencia de la magia, que no crea, sino llama.
~ Franz Kafka
Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida está dispuesto, siempre en toda plenitud, alrededor de cada uno, pero cubierto de un velo, en las profundidades, invisible muy lejos. Sin embargo está ahí, no hostil, no a disgusto, no sordo, viene si uno lo llama con la palabra correcta, por su nombre correcto, Es la esencia de la magia, que no crea, sino llama.
~ Franz Kafka
It's about...something that remains out of sight
~ Ronald Everett Capps
Tutto quello che è interessante accade nell'ombra, davvero. Non si sa nulla della vera storia degli uomini.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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 sea, and my eyes are the color of water.
~ Anais Nin
ABDITIVE  (A'BDITIVE)   adj.[from abdo, to hide.] That which has the power or quality of hiding.Dict.  
~ Samuel Johnson
How it seemed like you could see everything, but certain things were blocked out, hidden.
~ Sarah Dessen
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.
~ Edward Gorey
There must be a solid and valid reason as why women in ancient times were not given freedom and kept in veiled condition.
~ Anuj Somany
For didn't everyone have secret parts and shadows?
~ Ari Berk
Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible.
~ Trevor Paglen
Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.
~ John Polkinghorne
There was a pot of boiling rage on a private stove behind their closed curtains:
~ Margaret Atwood
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 as you live.
~ Anne Frank
Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will still bring you happiness again, as long as you live. As long as you can look fearlessly up into the heavens, as long as you know that you are pure within, and that you will still find happiness.
~ Anne Frank