Quotes About Veil

I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides the veil.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil to lift off the bondage and illusion

when I see you, I see mystery - a pale moon's beauty behind a veil of cloud

All precious things discovered lateTo those that seek them issue forth, For Love in sequel works with Fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth

Through the veil of Love, one finds the heaven on Earth

One of the most difficult things is to be friends with someone you love so immensely. It hurts. And the worst part is, you have to veil your pain with a smile. And every bit of that smile hurts too.

Thus from beneath the black veil there rolled a cloud into the sunshine, an ambiguity of sin or sorrow, which enveloped the poor minister, so that love or sympathy could never reach him.

The grass of many years has sprung up and withered on that grave, the burial-stone is mossgrown, and good Mr. Hooper's face is dust; but awful is still the thought that it mouldered beneath the black veil.

I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a black veil!

If it be a sign of mourning, replied Mr. Hooper, I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil.

W)hen you cover up strange things, they never go away completely, do they?

good deeds can be shortly stated but where wrong is done a wealth of language is needed to veil its deformity.

out of sight of hair smoke and lip ash and bowel cinders

Each evening the moon wanted thinner and gave off less and less light. By the fourteenth night the moon showed her ebony face. Demeter had traveled to the far ends of the earth and waited for Hecate, goddess of the dark moon, to appear. The sky was black, as though a veil had been thrown over even the brightest stars.

Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.

hung like a trembling curtain of black lace

A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will, it is reported, raise her skirt to cover her face.

There was the door to which I found no key, There was the veil through which 1 might not see.

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

The events were always hidden behind a veil drawn by an unknown power, and seemed to come from the realm of destiny. It was this that upset the everyday equilibrium, logic and the order of things.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.

We are spirits clad in veils.

Alexandra would have sworn the veil to heaven lifted ever so slightly. She could all but feel the brush of it against her face.