Top 100 Quotes About Veils
#1. I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
Plutarch
#3. The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.
Emma Restall Orr
#4. Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.
Arthur Symons
#5. He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, "Lord, that she might be safe, she and my children." Then turned his cheek to her reaching hand and touched her throught the veils of time.
Diana Gabaldon
#6. Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace
the many inquiries
the fond regrets and thrilling hopes
it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness.
George Henry Lewes
#7. Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.
Winston Churchill
#8. All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.
Martin Luther
#9. There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#10. What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?
Camille Flammarion
#11. Congress' dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters and its misconduct is exposed. This will no longer go unchallenged. The younger generation will not accept these actions of Congress!
Narendra Modi
#12. No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either
Shirin Ebadi
#13. I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.
Louis Pasteur
#14. God once declared He was true
And then took the veil and withdrew ...
Robert Frost
#15. Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration ... tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils
Francis Bacon
#16. There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.
Henry Ward Beecher
#17. I remember going with my parents to weddings where the women would arrive covered in black veils, but underneath, they'd be wearing the most exquisite brightly colored Dolce & Gabbana suits. They were like peacocks showing off their tails.
Huma Abedin
#18. In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.
Rumi
#19. Lo! 'tis a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre, to see
A play of hopes and fears [ ... ]
Edgar Allan Poe
#20. The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending.
Chris Bowen
#21. I have lifted the veil. I have created life, wrested the secret of life from life. Now do you understand? From the lives of those who have gone before, I have created life.
Edward T. Lowe Jr.
#22. Secrecy is for the happy,
misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.
Friedrich Schiller
#23. No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.
Melanie Phillips
#24. The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.
Howard W. Hunter
#25. Lovers drink wine all day and night and tear the veils of the mind.
When drunk with love's wine, body, heart and soul become one.
Rumi
#26. The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.
William Wordsworth
#27. When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.
Wilford Woodruff
#28. I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.
Joe
#29. Anyway, that's how it is! Either they obey the law, or they're expelled!! And make sure they wear their veils correctly ... " - "If hair is as stimulating as you say, then you need to shave your moustache!" My father actually said that.
Marjane Satrapi
#30. Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty
Nathanael Emmons
#31. [Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.
David Hume
#32. The truth is rarely buried; it is merely lying in wait behind veils of modesty, pain, or indifference; the one necessary prerequisite is a passionate desire to lift the veils.
Amin Maalouf
#33. Clouds of confusion
rolled into illusion
He veils perversion
forcing her coercion
Her body he takes
while she flies away
unbelievable, she's invisible
Diana Rasmussen
#34. Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.
Swami Vivekananda
#35. Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#37. Sweet desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this
Sting
#38. Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and once more confronted the Patriot party with the whole problem of the revolution's future.
Francois Furet
#40. The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.
Joseph Campbell
#41. If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
Paul Cezanne
#42. The reproduction of
what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.
Edgar Allan Poe
#43. Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.
Arthur Miller
#44. A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It ... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew.
Theodor Adorno
#46. When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.
Michele Cassou
#47. I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
Damien Rice
#48. Humanity's mission is to find a peace that lies beyond the veil - a peace that is not of this world. The peace that is not of this world is not dependent on human circumstances.
Marianne Williamson
#50. Stories exist to entertain and inspire us. They're merely veils of hope for when we see the ugliness of the world.
Felix Alexander
#51. Why?' said Philippa. 'For suffering what you have suffered for three months?' And felt the veils rend about her, for she had broken the unwritten law: it must not be uttered. It must not be uttered, or they could not bear the pain, mirrored over and over.
Dorothy Dunnett
#52. UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing.
Andy Stern
#53. When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
Octave Mirbeau
#54. 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.
Roger Scruton
#55. In our hearts there burns a fire ...
That burns all veils to their root and foundation
When those veils have been burned away
Then the heart will understand completely.
Ancient love will unfold ever-fresh forms
In the heart of the Spirit,
In the core of the heart.
Rumi
#56. The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.
John Lubbock
#57. We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.
Christopher Pearse Cranch
#58. All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#59. She was the most beautiful person he had ever seen. With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets.
Virginia Woolf
#60. Selena feels the hidden things thinning away to black veils you could pop with a fingertip, puddling into harmless sleep on the ground.
Tana French
#61. Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.
Mason Cooley
#62. Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.
Douglas Horton
#63. Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.
Swami Vivekananda
#65. The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
Ramakrishna
#66. A radiant full moon of silver hangs in the black sky, between the veils of misty clouds.
Moonshine Noire
#67. The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
Joseph Campbell
#68. Releasing masks and veils allows the other to see you in your authenticity. Guards are dropped, and we can be seen for who we really are: the uniqueness of our personality, the beauty of our soul, our pure spirit.
John Friend
#69. People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#70. Goddess of immemorable cloudy veils, reveal your magickal powers so we may re-attune our psyches to your multi-dimensional realities and thereby draw your power to heal this worldly habitat and return it to the provocative Sisterhood of Your Milky Way.
Lady Svetlana
#71. I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#72. The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.
Honore De Balzac
#73. A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.
Marion Woodman
#74. Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
Alexander Smith
#75. When the veil of death has been drawn between us and the objects of our regard, how quick-sighted do we become to their merits, and how bitterly do we remember words, or even looks, of unkindness which may have escaped in our intercourse with them.
Reginald Heber
#76. Shaman is a spiritual shuttle between three realms of existence: Heaven, Mankind and Earth. He pierces through inter-dimensional veils in order to heal the parts and unite the whole.
Lada Ray
#77. The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#78. Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Lord Chesterfield
#79. The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.
Park Chan-wook
#80. Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
Aaron Hill
#81. The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.
Said Nursi
#83. Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah.
Muhammad
#85. The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.
Douglas Coupland
#86. Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.
Mikhail Naimy
#87. The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.
Achim Steiner
#88. Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil itself, Killarney Clary's new book-her best to date-dwells, plumbs, persuades and thrills.
Jorie Graham
#89. Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
Jayne Anne Phillips
#90. They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#91. People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.
Lady Gaga
#92. A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#93. It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.
H.G.Wells
#94. O Prince, our eyes contemplate with admiration and transmit to the soul the wonderful and varied spectacle of this universe. The night veils without doubt a part of this glorious creation; but day comes to reveal to us this great work, which extends from earth even into the plains of the ether.
Henry David Thoreau
#95. Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits
Antonio Machado
#96. [Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#98. Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
Alexander Pope
#99. The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.
R.C. Sproul
#100. In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.
Francis Thompson
