Top 100 Quotes About Veil
#1. Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
Mary Ritter Beard
#2. You are at home when you're at a Black Veil Brides concert.
Andy Biersack
#3. was the fluffy wedding dress with the veil still in place, or the
Kristin Miller
#4. No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.
Rumi
#5. Pat's been deserted -- have you heard that, darling? Do you think she'll take the veil or cocaine or something?
Radclyffe Hall
#6. Sugar's cheek was smooth and taut beneath the veil. It felt like one of these netted onions in a grocery store.
Anne Tyler
#7. You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#8. Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
Lech Walesa
#9. I am the goddess of the Mist," Hecate explained. "I am responsible for keeping the veil that separates the world of the gods from
Rick Riordan
#10. Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Khalil Gibran
#11. Some Albanians who have worn a veil say it creates a kind of freedom by giving them anonymity and symbolic invulnerability when outside the home.
Antonia Young
#12. What the scholars discovered behind the veil was a Jesus created in their own images according to their own prejudices.
R.C. Sproul
#13. I curled my lip at the sight of sizzling human hair and skin clinging to my demon flesh. Damn, I'd have given anything to be back in Boston, sipping chai tea latte." ~ Muse, Ties That Bind, #5 The Veil Series.
Pippa DaCosta
#15. Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
Helen Keller
#16. The new world is as yet
behind the veil of destiny
In my eyes, however
its dawn has been unveiled
Muhammad Iqbal
#17. If human love hath power to penetrate the veil
and hath it not?
then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#18. The wonderful thing is that the soul already knows to some extent that there is something behind the veil, the veil of perplexity, that there is something to be sought for in the highest spheres of life, that there is some beauty to be seen, that there is Someone to be known who is knowable.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#19. When I see you, I see mystery - a pale moon's beauty behind a veil of cloud
John Geddes
#20. In the tribe of Tuareg, men instead of women cover their faces with a blue veil. The tourists who come there call them the 'Blue Men of the Sahara'.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#21. Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
Zadie Smith
#22. Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
Jean Racine
#23. Scientifically speaking, the flesh was melted off the world. His body was macerated until only the nerve fibers were left. It was spread like a veil upon a rock.
Virginia Woolf
#24. Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.
Connie Sellecca
#25. The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#26. The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing - it is a mask, a mask worn at all times, making identification or participation in economic and social life virtually impossible.
Jean-Francois Cope
#27. BEYOND THE MIST, the darkness and shadow, he waits, reaching out through a veil of gossamer threads - 'your
future,' he whispers, 'your destiny'.
Charlotte Featherstone
#28. Are your eyes dimmed with death's black veil?
Aya Kanno
#30. The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.
A.F. Stewart
#31. A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.
Honore De Balzac
#32. The world of a cat is unlike any other. What is seen through their eyes cannot be understood by anyone besides another cat. Their world is filled with secrets and adventures that are always present and forever changing. To look at the world as a cat is to look through the veil of reality.
Alex G. Zarate
#33. His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and there no more reading romance novels by candelight.
Darynda Jones
#34. Fiction; inner thoughts of Elisha
True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.
William Wordsworth
#35. Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.
William Tyndale
#36. We are not dissatisfied with our choices and with what life has
given us, but when we meet we both have a curious and not unpleasant
impression that a veil, a breath, a throw of the dice deflected us
onto two divergent paths, which were not ours.
Primo Levi
#37. He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.
Jonathan Swift
#38. I remember what it feels like to come with open hands and heart and I am, again, awed by the Story of in the beginning, water into wine, love held by nails, the veil torn, resurrected life. He is real, more real than anything I will ever see with my eyes, hear with my ears, or touch with my hands.
Lisa Whittle
#39. Now the time is come,
That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,
And let her head fall into England's lap.
William Shakespeare
#40. This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world.
Jackson Galaxy
#41. People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male
Jon Hamm
#42. That Rosemary is to wear white silk and a veil, but Ellen is to be married in navy blue. I have no doubt, Mrs. Dr. dear, that that is very sensible of her,
L.M. Montgomery
#43. There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.
Edward FitzGerald
#44. All that remained was the curiosity of it all. The wonder of the outside world beyond the veil of lies.
Hugh Howey
#45. Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.
Richard B. Garnett
#46. All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost.
Louis Claude De Saint-Martin
#47. My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.
Georgina Chapman
#48. I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
Florence Welch
#49. They will come a time when Satan will throw a veil over the earth...and convince us that he does not exist. Look at our politics and degradation of values and loyalty and tell me that day is not today.
James Morris Robinson
#50. Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.
Sappho
#51. To these women, the veil constitutes an extremely important part of the idea of 'getting dressed', whereas in the West the veil represents a symbol of male dominance..
Antonia Young
#52. The moment stretches out to an eternity in her green eyes, and I can picture being together with this girl until the end of time; our hands entwined as we pass across the veil of the universe, forever hurtling into a vast expanse of nothing.
Ken Alexopoulos
#53. You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you
Paramahansa Yogananda
#54. A part of me sought the light in all the people I knew, but with the Shadows, it was like bringing them back from a subterfuge comma. Literally tearing the veil of blackness down and showing them the luminescence of light.
Laura Kreitzer
#55. Education jargon is the language of pedants; it identifies those who have so little confidence in themselves and their work that they seek to create a veil of words to hide them.
Ted Sizer
#56. Beyond the veil of suffering is a light that shines bright in every one of us. One does not need glasses to see that light, just compassion.
Charles F. Glassman
#58. The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.
Victoria Kahler
#59. Ghosts from the past weave spells in the present to draw a veil of secrecy over the future.
Sean Best
#60. Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?
to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.
Henry David Thoreau
#61. Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#62. If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable. If you don't want your wife to be examined by a male doctor, then you're not welcome here. France is a country that's open.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#63. In Silence the heart illumines; veil after veil is removed.In the heart shines the Light of Love.When the Light of Love is seen shining within your heart you behold the Light in all.Your heart will be filled with love and compassion for all.
Kirpal Singh
#64. The speckled sky is dim with snow,
The light flakes falter and fall slow;
Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale,
Silently drops a silvery veil; And all the valley is shut in
By flickering curtains gray and thin.
John Townsend Trowbridge
#65. Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.
Rick Warren
#66. Hatred always leaves a stain on the veil. But sometimes the hatred isn't your own. Sometimes you're chained, and the hatred beaten into you is another man's, grown in a different heart, and it takes longer than a fading bruise to forget.
Gregory David Roberts
#67. Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed.
Swami Vivekananda
#68. The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
C.S. Lewis
#69. We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.
Kim Campbell
#70. A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
Frederick William Robertson
#71. Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
Victoria Moran
#72. She could not help knowing it, the torch of her beauty; she carried it erect into any room that she entered; and after all, veil it as she might, and shrink from the monotony of bearing that it imposed on her, her beauty was apparent.
Virginia Woolf
#73. Black Veil Brides will stand strong for you we will take on the world's hatred so that you don't have to listen to your music way to loud and be as crazy and as "different" as you want to be and always remember you're not alone.
Andy Biersack
#74. Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.
Loreena McKennitt
#75. Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.
Robert E. Howard
#76. Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance ... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.
Franz Marc
#77. Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with 'Thy will be done' (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).
Boyd K. Packer
#78. Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Augustus Hare
#79. The face of Truth is hidden behind the golden veil of maya, says the Upanishad.
Mahatma Gandhi
#80. All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world.
William Law
#82. It amazes me, how quickly one discovers the truth, hidden deep within the mysteries of life; the secret, to enlightened vision, is but just a veil, one needs only to touch, and feather.
Alejandro C. Estrada
#83. Death is the veil which those who live call life;
They sleep, and it is lifted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#84. At critical moments the veil between the little-self and the deep self thins and a meaningful self-adjustment becomes possible. If a person does not become paralyzed with fear or frozen in hatred, the wise self hidden within will rise to the occasion.
Michael Meade
#85. I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something ... or something.
Shannon Celebi
#86. All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
Sophie Swetchine
#87. Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.
Azar Nafisi
#88. I've written a very long piece of music recently, the 'Veil of the Temple,' which lasts about seven hours. It's really a kind of vigil. It takes place during the night, waiting for the resurrection of Christ.
John Tavener
#89. I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.
Judy Cannato
#90. They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here.
Laura Nyro
#91. It is infinitely better that the profane and loose be unmasked than to be muffled up under the veil and hood of traditional hypocrisy, which turns and dulls the very edge of all conscience either toward God or man.
Roger Williams
#92. Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.
Timothy Keller
#93. As soon as we are born
we hide God in ourselves.
We then spend our lives looking for Him
when all along, He has been concealed behind
the veil of 'I'.
Kamand Kojouri
#94. If you were blind you would hardly have fallen in love in the first place. But now, do you truly wish to see the beloved in the cold clarity of the visual apparatus? It may be in your better interest to throw a veil over the gaze, so as to keep her alive in her archetypal, goddesslike form.
J.M. Coetzee
#95. A relentless barrage of 'why's' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.
Shigeo Shingo
#96. Fear was just a deceptive veil obscuring the unknown.
Rinker Buck
#97. Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.
Hafez
#98. [Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.
James Madison
#99. This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight.
Jane Smiley
#100. No doubt Pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. It removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul.
C.S. Lewis
