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When the shadows shroud the woods,
And the mountains are empty and bare;
I am flying with the crow ... — Stephan Attia

I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud. — Caitlin Doughty

The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud. — J.G. Ballard

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud. — William H. Calvin

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

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

Royalty is a fine burial shroud. — Theodora

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

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. — Thomas Heywood

Nudity is the uniform of the other side ... nudity is a shroud. — Milan Kundera

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

There are no pockets in a shroud. — Terry Pratchett

'Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names. — Ari Millen

In my eyes, BDSM is not a sexual experience, it's a spiritual connection. — Simon Shroud

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me. — Jerry Spinelli

We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes. — Rick Riordan

Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud. — Philip James Bailey

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

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

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

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

Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud. — Langston Hughes

You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud. — Elsie De Wolfe

Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus! — Hilary Mantel

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

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain. — Anna Seward

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

No defeat, no surrender

Ain't no pockets in a shroud

There is nothing so sure in life as death and taxes — Ninette Kelly

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts. — Lord Byron

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living. — Pierre-Jean De Beranger

Think, I tell myself.
Think.
Unwrap your brain from the shroud
it's been living in.
Think. — Valentina Cano

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. — Honore De Balzac

The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are 'age appropriate.' For me that would be a shroud. — Joan Rivers

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. — Walt Whitman

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself. — M. Night Shyamalan

Making money is good, but there's no pockets in a shroud. — Terry Pratchett

Shroud of dust now covers the beautiful earth, wonder when we respire in the fresh air of verdure. — Soumya V.

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

The best way to hide the truth is to shroud it in myth — Sam A. Patel

No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed. — Ogden Nash