Shroud Quotes

#1. Tear up that funeral shroud - you are going to smother yourself in it. I am beauty, I am youth, I am life - come to me, and together we will be Love itself ... Our life together will flow by like a dream, and it will be as one perpetual kiss.

Theophile Gautier

#2. Think, I tell myself.
Think.
Unwrap your brain from the shroud
it's been living in.
Think.

Valentina Cano

#3. No defeat, no surrender

Ain't no pockets in a shroud

There is nothing so sure in life as death and taxes

Ninette Kelly

#4. Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

Thomas Heywood

#5. He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.

Victor Hugo

#6. The stranger's first feeling, when suddenly confronted by that towering and awful apparition wrapped in its shroud of snow, is breath-taking astonishment. It is as if heaven's gates had swung open and exposed the throne. (Twain on seeing the Jungfrau.)

Mark Twain

#7. There is no "I" for a person, for a beehive, for a corporation, for an animal, for a nation, for any living thing. The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost, an ephemeral shroud.

Kevin Kelly

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

Rick Riordan

#9. Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.

Damien Hirst

#10. It struck her, this was tragedy
not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.

Virginia Woolf

#11. Oh, women's god-damn coyness makes it difficult for men to probe their minds; it could be either a shield for their modesty or a shroud of their coquetry.

BS Murthy

#12. We walked away from all that was warm and dear and stood frightened in cold rain where the guns fired, and in the end, we died in pain, the black stinking mud our shroud, embraced at last not by living arms, but by the bones of those who before us died ...

Charles Todd

#13. The river this November afternoon
Rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:
A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud
Its passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#14. The best way to hide the truth is to shroud it in myth

Sam A. Patel

#15. Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth,
Man's resurrection, and the future's bud
Shroud in their births.

Henry Vaughan

#16. The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#17. When the shadows shroud the woods,
And the mountains are empty and bare;
I am flying with the crow ...

Stephan Attia

#18. The worst part was the silence. Death was supposed to be loud - gunshots, explosions, screams and thunder. Not this eerie quiet that wrapped around me like a shroud.

Karen Chance

#19. The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#20. 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

#21. Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.

Langston Hughes

#22. Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

Pierre-Jean De Beranger

#23. Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#24. No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

Ogden Nash

#25. You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.

Elsie De Wolfe

#26. The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.

Jim Butcher

#27. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. He

Rabindranath Tagore

#28. Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.

Homer

#29. Born weary of being born, he chose to be a shade; when, then, did he live, and by the transgression of what birth? And if, living, he wore his shroud, by what miracle did he manage to die?

Emil M. Cioran

#30. Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

William H. Calvin

#31. Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.

Denise Levertov

#32. [T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Herman Melville

#33. He walked to the bathroom and looked into the mirror, trying to see himself through her eyes. It was time to change his style, throw off the shroud of timidity and start living his life.

Rubianne Wood

#34. Death, like birth, is a secret of nature." Only with birth you get a blanket and a bottle. You get a blanket with death too, but they call it a shroud and everyone else gets the bottle.

Richard Kadrey

#35. If you bring darkness, I bring stars. If you bring clouds, I bring rain. If you bring a shroud, I burn it. To defeat an opponent with his own power...is elementary.

Yun Kouga

#36. I suppose my greatest disappointment has been realizing my father, like Joseph and Brigham before him, tried to shroud his passions in the mantle of religion. He used God to defend his adultery.
Ann Eliza Young, page 253

David Ebershoff

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

Sophocles

#38. Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.

Philip James Bailey

#39. Such is true joy's absolute certainty,
Its slow lit fuse that burns holes
In the shabby shroud of death forever.

Scott Hastie

#40. My mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.

Tehmina Durrani

#41. Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.

Mark Lawrence

#42. When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose.

John Keats

#43. Some people can't see love beyond the shroud of pain and suffering, but that's no big surprise. In dire circumstances flowers seem stupid and boxes of chocolates a waste and you can't have 'true' love without those!

Bianca Sommerland

#44. I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if you're not in the club, they're not going to let you join. It's like The Turin Shroud: don't touch it because it might fall apart.

Charles Hazlewood

#45. When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

Helen Hunt Jackson

#46. Royalty is a fine burial shroud.

Theodora

#47. 'Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names.

Ari Millen

#48. The next morning, I lie in bed beside my sister, as we used to do as girls in the nursery. She is still sleeping soundly, an arm over her face, the light sheet like a shroud over her soft body. I think of my children waking alone in the apartment on

Sheila Kohler

#49. Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

Honore De Balzac

#50. And the great spirit of darkness spread a shroud over me ... everything was silent-everything. But upon the heights soughed the everlasting song, the voice of the air, the distant, toneless humming which is never silent.

Knut Hamsun

#51. Color
Wear it
Like a banner
For the proud
Not like a shroud.
Wear it
Like a song
Soaring high
Not moan or cry.

Langston Hughes

#52. Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus!

Hilary Mantel

#53. She settled for snatching up the apple strudel still warm in its tinfoil shroud and throwing it at him. 'I'll give you darkness, you sanctimonious fucker!

Sarra Manning

#54. Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.

Jerry Spinelli

#55. She pivoted right, and sensed the vast, open space of the wasteland stretching before her under the opaque sky, a darkness as thin and final as the velvet lining of a shroud (360-361).

Caragh M. O'Brien

#56. I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

Lord Byron

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

Rick Riordan

#58. Making money is good, but there's no pockets in a shroud.

Terry Pratchett

#59. Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more importantly, to change it. Such is the impulse behind our conversation with the vampryoteuthis

Vilem Flusser

#60. I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.

Caitlin Doughty

#61. Still and pale
Thou movest in thy silver veil,
Queen of the night! the filmy shroud
Of many a mild, transparent cloud
Hides, yet adorns thee.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#62. Nudity is the uniform of the other side ... nudity is a shroud.

Milan Kundera

#63. The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are 'age appropriate.' For me that would be a shroud.

Joan Rivers

#64. 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.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#65. I do not restrain desire Until my desire is satisfied Or until my body touches hers, Or my soul from my body goes. When I am dead, open my tomb, You will see my heart on fire And my shroud in smoke.

Khushwant Singh

#66. The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.

J.G. Ballard

#67. And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Walt Whitman

#68. Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something
(All The King's Men)

Robert Penn Warren

#69. When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

Matthew Scully

#70. When I unwrapped the moth from its funeral shroud, it was the same startlingly lovely creature as on the day I had entombed it. Everything about it seemed beautiful and perfect, and so utterly unchanged.

Arthur Golden

#71. Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.

Jay Parini

#72. The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.

T. S. Eliot

#73. Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Anna Seward

#74. Folks around here call us el destinos.
They like to say we came from the stars. And when I stare up at the infinite heavens stretched out above us like a shroud, it's hard to imagine we came from anywhere else.

Leslye Walton

#75. If thou wilt be mine, I shall make thee happier than God Himself in His paradise. The angels themselves will be jealous of thee. Tear off that funeral shroud in which thou about to wrap thyself. I am Beauty, I am Youth, I am Life. Come to me! Together we shall be Love.

Theophile Gautier

#76. The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#77. 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.

Charles Kennedy

#78. 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?

Michael Chabon

#79. I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

M. Night Shyamalan

#80. Don't rush to spend time by yourself. Don't hurry to alienation. It's an inevitable destination. Time will eventually shroud you like velvet curtains, blacking out everything.

Joshua Mohr

#81. Shroud of dust now covers the beautiful earth, wonder when we respire in the fresh air of verdure.

Soumya V.

#82. The city lay cool and dim beneath a vaulting sky of high-scudding gray clouds. A gray shroud that covered the corpses of buildings, stiff in brick-and-steel rigor mortis, pale in their eternity of sooty death.

Harlan Ellison

#83. There are no pockets in a shroud.

Terry Pratchett

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

Stephen Crane

#85. He thought for a second, then spun to Clara. 'Did you say something cruel to the TARDIS while I was getting changed?'
'No! Of course not!'
'Did you call her fat?'
'What?'
'Because she's not fat. She's just bigger on the inside.

Tommy Donbavand

#86. In my eyes, BDSM is not a sexual experience, it's a spiritual connection.

Simon Shroud