Quotes About Revelation

La verdad es una cosa muy dolorosa de oír y de manifestar

As he passed out, he used to look with wonder at the black confessionals and long to sit in the dim shadow of one of them and listen to men and women whispering through the worn grating the true story of their lives.

But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid. Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any real cognisance. And the soul itself, the soul of each one of us, is to each one of us a mystery. It hides in the dark and broods, and consciousness cannot tell us of its workings. Consciousness, indeed, is quite inadequate to explain the contents of personality. It is Art, and Art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

So you think that it is only God who sees the soul? Draw that curtain back, and you will see mine.

Creo que el arte oculta al artista más que lo descubre

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.

A coisa mais banal se torna deliciosa se a escondermos

Truth, indeed, is a thing that is most painful to listen to and most painful to utter.

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me before.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are

Dicere quae puduit, scribere jussit amor

Read what is here. How could reading a letter harm you? There might even be something in it that pleases you. My secrets are carried, by these letters, over land and sea: even enemies read letters received from their enemies.

How I wish your eyes were able to pierce deep down to my heart and catch a glimpse of your father's anxiety.

Something that might have been a very hard and knobbly leg of mutton smote Lord Emsworth violently behind the ear:the sun was turned off at the main: the stars came out, many of them of a singular brightness.

When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.

Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.

Yet as he stared into Stevie Rae's soft blue eyes, what he saw was a whole new world—a world in which this strange little red vampyre meant heart and soul and truth.

When Lynette described everything that had happened, the puzzle pieces fell into place from my last vision. Goddess, I hate figurative language.

Vampyre High Council. Wasn't clueing them in to that a little more important

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

I shuttered from hairdo to shoe-sole

I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class.

I must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment.