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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
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.
Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.
I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil.
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.
Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.
The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.
No matter what is happening in the world of appearances,
beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.
It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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.
Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.
If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.
As a kid... there's a veil of separation between you and your dad, especially when you have a dad who's under a lot of stress.
O King of glory, though you hide your beauty, yet the eye of my soul rends the veil. I see the angelic choirs giving you honor without cease.
My biggest love has always been the music Black Veil Brides make, but that doesn't mean I don't listen to or enjoy other things.
Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.
Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.
But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.
When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.
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.
To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you?
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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.
A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.
He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.
I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.
For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I've never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring.
Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.
Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.
When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
The beauty of comedy is, when people come to a comedy club, there is a certain veil of reality suspended.
I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.
Most members of Gamergate, the alt-right movement best known for harassing women in the game industry, operate under a veil of anonymity.
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil
I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we'll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.
I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.
No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.
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.
Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.
Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.
You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you
