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Quotes About Veil

the body is nothing but camouflage.
~ Simon Van Booy
Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.
~ Augustus William Hare
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
~ Lord Chesterfield
If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Political correctness has thrown a veil of silence over our important discussions. Rather than asking those with whom we disagree to clearly state their case, we set up rules of political correctness that mandate that their perspective must be the same as ours. We then demonize those with whom we disagree and as a result fail to reach any consensus that might solve our problems.
~ Ben Carson
It was the time of year when migrating crows wheeled across the sky, thunderous flocks that moved like a single veil, and I heard them, out there in the wild chirruping air. Turing to the window, I watched the birds fill the sky before disappearing, and when the air was still again, I watched the empty place where they had been.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
There are people in this world, whose lives are nothing but a burden to them. A black veil stands between them and the world. They are utterly alone. They are like shadows in the night, shut off from joy and all gentle human emotions, unable to even give comfort to each other. Their days are full of nothing but darkness, misery and solitude.
~ Susanna Clarke
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar His face is to us.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
I am sure many of you know that the veil can be very thin-that there are people over there who are pulling for us-people who have faith in us and who have great hopes for us, who are hoping and praying that we will measure up-our loved ones who have passed on
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Everything is really something else in disguise. Of course she was no exception, she reminded herself. Everybody would assume that she was there as the Childersins' novelty pet, or as a Perfume-detector. Nobody would guess that she was there to look for the person who had stolen her history.
~ Frances Hardinge
Prayer is not a wish turned heavenward ... it is the voice of vail turned Godward
~ Billy Graham
Great crimes seldom spring from any sudden demoralization in the natures of their perpetrators. What seems a fearful precipitation of character, is usually no more than the rending of a veil from the hitherto concealed parts of it.
~ bovee christian nestell iv
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
~ Harold Bloom
Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.
~ Stacy Aumonier
Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.
~ R. D. Laing
God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
~ Robert Frost
The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.
~ Umberto Eco
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.
~ Zadie Smith
Then came the crumbling away of a grey veil from the face of the night.
~ Mervyn Peake
Dare to love God without mediator or veil.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Il tessuto della cicatrice non ha carattere. Non è come la pelle. Non rivela età, malattia, pallore, o colorito. Non ha pori, né peli, né rughe. È come una fodera. Protegge e maschera quello che c'è sotto. Per questo ce lo facciamo crescere; abbiamo qualcosa da nascondere.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.
~ Suzanne Finnamore