Thin Veil Quotes

#1. THE VEIL OF CIVILISATION was thin indeed, so easily torn away to reveal depravity waiting beneath, waiting, as such things always did, for the first hint of turbulence.

Steven Erikson

#2. The greatest performances where when fingertips took away a very thin veil between people and uncovered the universe in its entirety.

Peter Hoeg

#3. She turns her head away, but through the thin film of her veil he can see her skin glow. Because women will coax: tell me, just tell me something, tell me your thoughts; and this he has done.

Hilary Mantel

#4. I am sure many of you know that the veil can be very thin-that there are people over there who are pulling for us-people who have faith in us and who have great hopes for us, who are hoping and praying that we will measure up-our loved ones who have passed on

Ezra Taft Benson

#5. I know I'm not alone and I don't walk alone. That I won't. When the thin whisper of a veil between what I can't see and what I can is pulled back and for one brief second I get a glimpse of what will be. Where the words 'might' and 'hope' intersect.

Charles Martin

#6. I like writing fiction better than anything, because just being a writer of fiction gives you an absolutely unassailable protection against reality; nothing is ever seen clearly or starkly, but always through a thin veil of words.

Shirley Jackson

#7. I believe that God's glory comes to us through many things, through almost everything, because matter itself is a thin veil over God's rich glory spilling through, like light through every crack.

Ned Hayes

#8. Many cultures believe that on a certain day - Halloween, the Irish Samhain Eve, Mexico's 'Dia de los Muertos' - the veil between this world and the next is especially thin.

Michael Dirda

#9. Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

George William Russell

#10. When the beaded curtain parts with a sound like rain, it is Marco who enters the fortune-teller's chamber, and Isobel immediately flips her veil from her face, the impossibly thin black silk floating back over her head like mist.

Erin Morgenstern

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. But at midnight - strange, mystic hour, when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin - then came the messenger.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#15. I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.

Clare Balding

#16. Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

Oscar Wilde

#17. You are in the Thin Veil, the Black Sunshine.

Karina Halle

#18. If we're being honest, we don't call ourselves royalty. If we're being honest, we call ourselves timid, confused, and insecure. All our self-loathing and self-promoting is a thin veil covering over our frightening conviction that we are nobodies.

Tony Reinke

#19. His eyes kindled and a slight flush sprang into his thin cheeks. For an instant the veil had lifted upon his keen, intense nature, but for an instant only. When I glanced again his face had resumed that red-Indian composure which had made so many regard him as a machine rather than a man.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. Midnight,
strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#21. There is such a thin veil between love and hate.

Mia Sheridan

#22. The Veil of Consciousness is a thin sheath that
I wear to view the transparency of the life that
Surrounds me.

Sandra Proto