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But there is no veil like light
no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth. — George MacDonald

Pat's been deserted -- have you heard that, darling? Do you think she'll take the veil or cocaine or something? — Radclyffe Hall

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil. — R.D. Laing

I can only be nice to one Person, today's not your day tomorrow doesn't look good either — Quinn Loftis

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy. — Richard B. Garnett

Fear was just a deceptive veil obscuring the unknown. — Rinker Buck

You try moving things with nothing but willpower. It's about as easy as trying to lasso a bull with a licorice whip."
- from "Phantom's Veil — Richelle E. Goodrich

She had to possess the courage to enter, through language, states which most people deny or veil with silence. — Adrienne Rich

All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The pain will be born from that look cast inside yourself, And this pain will make you go beyond the veil. (Mathnawi II, 2517) — Camille Helminski

Through the light splaying off the roof, Angela's falling blonde hair looked cream-colored, intricately stitched together like a veil. — Greg Metcalf

Never give in, never back down. — Andy Biersack

If it be a sign of mourning," replied Mr. Hooper, "I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits — Antonio Machado

The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves ... and other animals. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Yself standing in front of Monticello wearing a veil and a wedding gown, hand in hand with a very muscular President Jefferson. — Anne Fortier

I'm sorry, I can't see that you truly love me — Pierce The Veil

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. — Victor Hugo

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner. — Louis Pasteur

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. — Alexander Pope

Clouds signify the veil of the Most High. — Honore De Balzac

Take joy in who you are, we know our wings are flawed. — Andy Biersack

Darling you'll be okay — Pierce The Veil

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. — W. Somerset Maugham

Oh, you're good."
Akil narrowed his eyes. "You must have me confused with another sociopathic demon. — Pippa DaCosta

The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns. — Victoria Kahler

Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. — A.W. Tozer

Speaking Akil's name around Stefan felt like throwing gasoline on a bushfire." ~ Muse — Pippa DaCosta

Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body. — Jean Racine

was the fluffy wedding dress with the veil still in place, or the — Kristin Miller

Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight. — Hafez

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You are at home when you're at a Black Veil Brides concert. — Andy Biersack

It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity. — Simone Veil

Party animosity was concealed under a veil of studied courtesy. — Barbara W. Tuchman

You can't throw just throw me away! — Pierce The Veil

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion. — Swami Vivekananda

With night's
Dim veil and blue
I will cover my eyes,
I will bind close my eyes that are
So weary. — Adelaide Crapsey

Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity. — Swami Vivekananda

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. — DeWitt Clinton

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe. — Richard Bach

Horrors from beyond the veil of time and space are coming to eat us so shut up, sounds like a pretty good draw card for a leader to have. — Yahtzee Croshaw

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects. — William Hazlitt

Some Albanians who have worn a veil say it creates a kind of freedom by giving them anonymity and symbolic invulnerability when outside the home. — Antonia Young

The face of Truth is hidden behind the golden veil of maya, says the Upanishad. — Mahatma Gandhi

I add that I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of them that live within the veil. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry. — William Faulkner

Give me your heart and your hand and we can run — Pierce The Veil

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. — John Taylor

The new world is as yet
behind the veil of destiny
In my eyes, however
its dawn has been unveiled — Muhammad Iqbal

Alchohol doesn't make you fat ... it make you Lean ... on tables, chairs & random people!!! ... — Ashley Purdy

For you to know your calling and push aside the veil covering your future, it is necessary to turn to God in prayer and meditate on the Word of God — Sunday Adelaja

All that remained was the curiosity of it all. The wonder of the outside world beyond the veil of lies. — Hugh Howey

Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil. — Loreena McKennitt

I have not lived for millennia to be bested by a half-blood whore and her puppet prince." ~ Valenti — Pippa DaCosta

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see. — Edward FitzGerald

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. — Simone Veil

A headland, a ship, a sail upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her. — James Joyce

A whore with a veil is mysterious. God's ways appear to be ... insane. — Joe Abercrombie

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied. — Zadie Smith

I am the goddess of the Mist," Hecate explained. "I am responsible for keeping the veil that separates the world of the gods from — Rick Riordan

If the beloved is everywhere,
the lover is a veil,
but when living itself becomes
the Friend, lovers disappear. — Rumi

Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion — Aamir Khan

It is a though he is spreading a veil of protectiveness over me, and I am greedy for it. — Kathleen Glasgow

In reality, every reality is a veil over reality. — Wasif Ali Wasif

I look at his bloodshot eyes and wonder if it affects what he sees, everything covered by a veil of red lace that his hands can't ever lift. — Yannick Murphy

Ghosts from the past weave spells in the present to draw a veil of secrecy over the future. — Sean Best

Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part." ~ Muse — Pippa DaCosta

You don't fall in love with a gender, you fall in love with a person. — Andy Biersack

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction. — Italo Svevo

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, — Kahlil Gibran

Everyone is naked ... under their clothes. — Ashley Purdy

Nazi ideologies continue to the present day behind the veil of supposedly free societies and governments. — James Morcan

Midnight,
strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Ego is a veil between humans and God'."
"In prayer all are equal. — Rumi

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects. — Honore De Balzac

I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress. — Brooke Astor

Through a blurry veil of tears, — Marie Lu

Now the time is come,
That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,
And let her head fall into England's lap. — William Shakespeare

They get a glimpse of red lips under a short veil, and exquisite little feet. — Leo Tolstoy

Veil wouldn't make his military invincible, but it would render every other military indefensible. Veil was it. Game over, fuckholes. — Aaron Overfield

Something pure to burn away the darkness that hides inside my mind — Andy Biersack

Death is the veil which those who live call life;
They sleep, and it is lifted. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Don't bother this love is a lie.
I'm a chemical kid,
You're a mechanical bride. — Chemical Kids And Mechanical Brides By Pierce The Veil

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil. — Melanie Phillips

The cultural infrastructure was buckling and society's veil of sanity was slipping away, exposing its uncharitable Id. — Bobby Adair

Beckett's gruff voice moved her veil as he spoke, Happy wedding, Whitebread. But please, don't worry about this. — Debra Anastasia

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn. — Kahlil Gibran

She wandered off into the shadows, carrying her bucket and dragging her shadow like a bridal veil. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed. — Swami Vivekananda

I stare out at the real world projected on the windows — Johnny Rich

I kissed the scars on her skin. I still think you're beautiful, and I don't ever wanna lose my best friend — Pierce The Veil

Life will continue on the other side of the veil. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. — George William Russell