Quotes About Shroud

So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud, Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.

The black sky just kept assuming deeper shades of black until, suddenly, it had blacked itself out entirely.

With words I have knit my shroud and will bury myself therein

I turned and faced the Olympians. We need a shroud, I announced, my voice cracking. A shroud for the son of Hermes.

We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.

El asunto es difícil de asumir para los creyentes y ha desatado una agria polémica en todo el mundo, multiplicada desde que el 13 de octubre de 1988 el cardenal Anastasio Ballestrero anunciara en Roma que los análisis de carbono-14 efectuados aquel mismo año para datar la Sábana Santa de Turín (esto es, los supuestos lienzos sepulcrales de Jesús) fueron fabricados entre finales del siglo XIII y el siglo XIV de nuestra era.

The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from their grave towards what is coming next.

The government's instinct is to shroud itself in secrecy - to act like the office of a president instead of as a collective cabinet government held to account by the elected House of Commons.

equal flaps, one draping itself over the front of the face, the

The snow has thrown a crumpled cloth over the table of all things.

Let winter come. Let the snow fall and consume Bath in a shroud of silence. Let everything feel as bound and stifled as my heart.

Darkness which may be felt.

Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harmNor question muchThat subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm;The mystery, the sign you must not touch,For 'tis my outward soul,Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone,Will leave this to control,And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.

Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes.

I wanted none of it finally. And, deserving nothing better, I closed up like a spider in the flame of a match. And even Armand who was my constant companion, and my only companion, existed at a great distance from me, beyond that veil which separated me from all living things, a veil which was a form of shroud.

Why place a shroud over all the splendor she saw around her, her vampire eyes feasting surely as she herself had feasted on all that we saw?

AGAPE of the Christos had spent its force. It laid upon the land as a shroud when once it had been a bright and shining spell of liberation. Under this pall the scorpion bred consciousness in the charnel house of putrefaction. Monsters arose and walked the earth in the guise of living men and women.These are the hypocrites to whom the sermon was delivered.

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.

The silence of the building closed around him like a shroud.

Again I paused, and gazed through the stony shroud, as if, by very force of penetrative sight, I would clear every lineament of the lovely face. And now I thought the hand that had lain under the cheek, had slipped a little downward. But then I could not be sure that I had at first observed its position accurately. So I sang again; for the longing had grown into a passionate need of seeing her alive—

In the last photograph of her, the bullet wound looked like a cheerful summer rose arranged just above her left ear. A few petals had fallen on her kaffan, the white shroud she was wrapped in before she was laid to rest.

Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.

Homais, as was due to his principles, compared priests to ravens attracted by the odour of death. The sight of an ecclesiastic was personally disagreeable to him, for the cassock made him think of the shroud, and he detested the one from some fear of the other.

The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the pine box or a plain white shroud?