Quotes About Revelation

It must be awkward wearing one's whole interior life on display, for anyone to read.

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

Icebergs behoove the soul(both being self-made from elements least visible)to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

What I have always found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

People are most themselves when suddenly woken, or when they pull darkness over their heads, or when, in the middle of the night, they commit themselves to some momentous decision.

Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible

Beauty depends on the unseen, George quoted the artist, the visible upon the invisible.

Without the light the beauty remains hidden," Gofrid said. "But it is always there.

It alters you irrevocably when you reach 30 years old and see a rip in the fabric of your dreams for every one of those years. Suddenly you're threadbare to the world.

dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets

I was grateful for the darkness that hid our faces at least, but nothing can hide the voice. It is always naked.

When Robert brought to the table a covered plate and lifted the lid with an excited flourish, Tim played second fiddle to a cake for the first time in his life.

And as the story unfolded before the Ervin committee, it began to take on the characteristics of a Russian novel. Someone we had never heard of suddenly emerged as an agent in activities that were almost inconceivable.

Ask them about their sex lives or their drinking habits or the times they beat up on Granny and they may dodge around a little but eventually they'll tell you all about it - they're dying to tell. Get to the money question, though, and they start acting like you just tore off all their clothes in public. In some way, money is the cover we use for the most intimate parts of ourselves.

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...

His face reminded her of an open book that's fallen into a puddle.

This is the way of long and empty roads: nearly forgotten things surface and singing voices improve.

You think you know now, don't you? But you have no idea what it was like.

I believed you, just for a second, until I looked into your eyes...

So maybe you were that guy that I always talked about. And maybe just maybe everyday I secretly hoped you would figure it out.

When one peels back an onion, all they have done is reveal a smaller onion.

Siamo abituati a pensare che lo shock coincida con la scoperta di qualcosa che non ci aspettavamo, mentre spesso coincide con il venire a galla di certe nostre paure profonde.

Sometimes I think we only imagine ourselves. It's hard sometimes, coming face-to-face with your truer nature -- the part that you conceal, even from yourself.