Veils Quotes
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Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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The soul is covered by a thousand veils.
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.
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Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.
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It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.
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A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.
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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.
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Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
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I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.
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Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.
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In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.
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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.
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What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?
