Veils Quotes - Page 4

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

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

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

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.

Necessity is God's veil.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

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

When the veil of death has been drawn between us and the objects of our regard, how quick-sighted do we become to their merits, and how bitterly do we remember words, or even looks, of unkindness which may have escaped in our intercourse with them.

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.

I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.

If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious.

No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.

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

Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I had loved and appreciated my whole life. I offer these photographs with the hope that they will open a new visual or meditative universe for you as well.

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

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

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

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

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.