Veils Quotes

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

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

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.

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

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

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

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

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

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

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

Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

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

Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun

The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

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

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.

What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Necessity is God's veil.

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.

Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us.

The sovereigns of the earth do not always grant audience readily; on the contrary, the King of Heaven, hidden under the eucharistic veils, is ready to receive anyone.

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.

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

Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

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

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.

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

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

The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil.

All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.

Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind.

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.

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

[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.