Top 58 Shroud You 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. 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
#3. 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
#4. In my eyes, BDSM is not a sexual experience, it's a spiritual connection.
Simon Shroud
#5. 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
#6. The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.
J.G. Ballard
#7. 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
#8. And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
Anna Seward
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.
Jerry Spinelli
#19. 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
#20. Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
Langston Hughes
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. When the shadows shroud the woods,
And the mountains are empty and bare;
I am flying with the crow ...
Stephan Attia
#25. 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
#26. Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth,
Man's resurrection, and the future's bud
Shroud in their births.
Henry Vaughan
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.
Elsie De Wolfe
#31. 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
#32. The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are 'age appropriate.' For me that would be a shroud.
Joan Rivers
#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. Nudity is the uniform of the other side ... nudity is a shroud.
Milan Kundera
#35. 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
#36. I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
Caitlin Doughty
#37. 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
#38. Making money is good, but there's no pockets in a shroud.
Terry Pratchett
#39. I turned and faced the Olympians.
"We need a shroud," I announced, my voice cracking. "A shroud for the son of Hermes.
Rick Riordan
#40. I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
Lord Byron
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus!
Hilary Mantel
#45. 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
#46. 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
#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. 'Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names.
Ari Millen
#50. Royalty is a fine burial shroud.
Theodora
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son,
Do not weep.
War is kind.
Stephen Crane
#54. 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
#56. 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
#57. I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
M. Night Shyamalan
#58. 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
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