Quotes About Veil

You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

The best live among us in disguise.

When you see someone, all you see is what they let you see.

While I never really awoke until morning, sounds and noises seemed to drift to me through my veil of slumber

Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, "Father, 'into Your hands I commit My spirit.' " – Luke 23:44–46

It's perfectly sane. Who wants transparency when you can have magic? Who wants prose when you can have poetry" pull away the veil, and what are you left with? An ordinary young woman of modest ability and little imagination. But wrap her up like this, anoint her with oil, and hey presto, what do you have? A goddess!

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The colobium begins to disappear by the ninth or early tenth century, however; and from this time, Jesus is more commonly shown, like the thieves, wearing a knotted perizoma, which some medieval interpreters understood to be Mary's veil, given to him in order to cover his nudity.

The very same 'mystery' that veils the human person from the neurophysiologist veils human history from the Marxian determinist and human morality from the sociobiologist.

That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.

The Ego is a veil between humans and God'." "In prayer all are equal.

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

Each atom hides beneath its veil The soul amazing beauty of the Beloved's face.

Everybody knows, she thought, that we have a skeleton underneath our skin; there's no reason to show it

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.

True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Behind every mask... is another mask.

We all wear masks. Mine are just better-crafted.

The sweetness and fine expression of her voice attracted his attention to her figure, which had a distinguished air of delicacy and grace; but her face was concealed in her veil. So much indeed was he fascinated by the voice, that a most painful curiosity was excited as to her countenance, which he fancied must express all the sensibility of character that the modulation of her tones indicated.

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.