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We are spirits clad in veils. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause. — Leo Errera

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. — Edwin Percy Whipple

Lazy and indifferent the heron returns; the sky veils her stars; then bares them — Virginia Woolf

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

The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives. — William Wordsworth

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

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade. — Aaron Hill

The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self. — Joseph Campbell

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

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind. — Idries Shah

We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes. — Alexander Rodchenko

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. — E.B. White

People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere. — Lady Gaga

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us. — Martin Luther

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of. — Jonathan Swift

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed. — Michele Cassou

Old willows trailed veils of wet leaves across his path. Moss crawled up the headstones. The place was otherwise deserted. — Martha Grimes

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

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil. — Zora Neale Hurston

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

Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey. — Sri Aurobindo

The soul is covered by a thousand veils. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. — Douglas Horton

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it. — Blaise Pascal

Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing
that was me. — Louise Erdrich

And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings ... — W.B.Yeats

Secrecy is for the happy,
misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly. — Friedrich Schiller

The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve, shyness,fear. — Muriel Box

Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah. — Muhammad

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

I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism. — Erskine Childers

Inside me! I gasp, and all the muscles deep in my belly clench. My inner goddess is doing the dance of the seven veils. — E.L. James

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. — Lord Chesterfield

Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness. — Mason Cooley

Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet. — Rumi

A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual. — Marion Woodman

The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see. — Park Chan-wook

Modesty in women has two special advantages,
it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees. — Sri Aurobindo

The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence. — B.K.S. Iyengar

I watched a storm pass to the north, trailing veils of dark rain. — Neil Peart

Love is the veil between lover and lover. — Khalil Gibran

The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected. — Howard W. Hunter

A redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared it's nocturnal mysteries. — Julien Gracq

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins. — Johnny Rich

That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object. — Magha

Francis Bacon somewhere remarks that politeness veils vice just as dress masks wrinkles. — John Doran

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself. — Claude Debussy

Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

God once declared He was true
And then took the veil and withdrew ... — Robert Frost

We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked. — Louis Kronenberger

When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like me might fit through. — Charles Spurgeon

We may not understand His Will for us in time, but in eternity the veil will be drawn and we shall see that He acted only for our happiness. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

The reproduction of
what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul. — Edgar Allan Poe

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees. — John Greenleaf Whittier

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. — Rumi

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

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. — Friedrich Nietzsche

She was the most beautiful person he had ever seen. With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets. — Virginia Woolf

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

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. — Alexander Pope

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

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

As we approach the Golden Age, the veils shall be removed and the people of the Earth shall become aware of the people of the Universe. — Edgar Cayce

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

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

In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill. — Francis Thompson

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

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand. — Edward Abbey

[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

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

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

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. — Octave Mirbeau

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

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled. — Mikhail Naimy

Modesty is a state of the heart. It veils the tongue. It clothes us in good manners. It envelops us with the best of behaviour. — T.J. Bowes

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on. — Jayne Anne Phillips

To raise the veil. To see what you're saying goodbye to. — Louise Gluck

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

Necessity is God's veil. — Simone Weil

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal. — Rumi

When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores. — Wilford Woodruff

A radiant full moon of silver hangs in the black sky, between the veils of misty clouds. — Moonshine Noire

You must not grieve that the world is glimpsed through veils. How else can it be seen? — Suji Kwock Kim

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it. — Robert E. Howard

Sweet desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this — Sting

Each atom hides beneath its veil The soul amazing beauty of the Beloved's face. — Mahmud Shabistari

No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either — Shirin Ebadi

When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them. — Jason Evert

Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability. — Kevin Mitnick

[Y]ou, one day, will knock lips with Turkish-coffee-clad veils whose beds our kin must tuck in misty-eyed. — Armineonila M.

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

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

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