100+ Veils Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Nathanael Emmons (1861). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.101

topic: Beautiful, Long, Veils

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

- Nathaniel Parker Willis

topic: Rose, Veils, Moss

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

topic: Thinking, Veils, Holiness, Affected

I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.

- Niecy Nash

topic: Veils, Planning, Sheets

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

- Omar Khayyam

topic: Keys, Doors, Veils

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Watches, Veils, World

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

- Plutarch

topic: Veils, Raised

Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable economic laws and accordingly, as if it were for charity to veil the violation of justice which lawmakers not only tolerated but at times sanctioned, wanted the whole care of supporting the poor committed to charity alone.

- Pope Pius XI

topic: Law, Justice, Veils

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

- Poppy Z. Brite

topic: Fiction, Veils, Liquor

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.

- R. Scott Bakker

source: R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.127, The Overlook Press

topic: Men, Effort, Veils, Volatility, Pierce

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.

- Reginald Heber

topic: Death, Looks, Veils, Unkindness

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

- Richard B. Garnett

topic: Hypocrisy, Desire, Veils

Living by synchronicity isn't merely about getting messages. It is about growing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch what rhymes and resonates in the world we inhabit, and how the world-behind-th e-world reveals itself by fluttering the veils of our consensual reality.

- Robert Moss

topic: Reality, Veils, World, Synchronicity, Fluttering

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

- Rumi

topic: Fire, Goal, Veils

No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.

- Rumi

topic: Soul, Veils, Faces

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

topic: Feet, Light, Veils, Swirls

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Veils, Female, Three, Muslim Family, Three Sisters

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

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Thinking, Veils, Way

I can't imagine pain greater than stepping across the veil and realizing I had not done what I came here to do - or realizing that I had given up my life to little or nothing, only then to find that it was gone. p 3

- Sheri L. Dew

topic: Pain, Done, Veils

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

- Shirin Ebadi

topic: Government, Veils, Force

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

- Sophie Swetchine

topic: Grief, Joy, Veils, Shrouds

God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.

- St. Catherine of Siena

topic: Soul, Lips, Veils

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

- Swami Vivekananda

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Veils

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Wisdom, Vices, Veils

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Inspirational, Kissing, Veils, Les Miserable

In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.

- Wasif Ali Wasif

topic: Reality, Veils

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

- Wilford Woodruff

topic: Understanding, Veils, World, Spirit World

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

- William Gurnall

topic: Humility, Grace, Veils

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

- Zadie Smith

topic: Hands, Veils, Telling The Truth

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

- Zora Neale Hurston

topic: Inspiring, Everyday, Veils, Everyday Living

The veils have become very thin and we are now able to access a large part of our sacredness - and we are utilizing that sacredness.

- Christine McCormick Day

source: Source: www.edgemagazine.net

topic: Veils, Able, Sacredness, Utilizing

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.

- Emma Restall Orr

topic: Ideas, Perception, Veils

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

- Leo Errera

topic: Ignorance, Ignorant, Veils

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

- Magha

topic: Energy, Veils, Mildness

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

- Melanie Phillips

source: Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

topic: Justice, Veils, Behinds

We may compare the Bible to the Old Testament Tabernacle in the wilderness with its three courts. The outer court is the letter of the Scriptures; the inner court, or holy place, is the truth of the Scriptures; the holiest place of all is the person of Jesus Christ; and only when we pass the inmost veil do we come to Him.

- Arthur Tappan Pierson

topic: Jesus, Three, Veils, Holy Places

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

- Michele Cassou

topic: Energy, Veils, Painting, Unleashed

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

- Francis Thompson

topic: Veils, Ill, Wells

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

topic: Veils, May, Eternity

Releasing masks and veils allows the other to see you in your authenticity. Guards are dropped, and we can be seen for who we really are: the uniqueness of our personality, the beauty of our soul, our pure spirit.

- John Friend

topic: Personality, Soul, Veils

Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.

- Kathryn Harrison

source: "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

topic: People, Tears, Veils

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

- Park Chan-wook

topic: Veils, Hazy, Audience

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

- Sri Aurobindo

source: Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo (1989). “The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings”, Lotus Press (WI)

topic: Journey, Veils, Stage

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.

- Sri Aurobindo

source: Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

topic: Veils, Action, Vehicle, Mental Power

There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed.

- Sri Aurobindo

source: Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

topic: Light, Veils, May

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

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

source: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.10, Arktos

topic: Veils, Golden, Sun

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.

- Paul Cezanne

topic: Art, Soul, Veils

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

- Paul Gauguin

topic: Beautiful, Color, Veils, Beautiful Colors

China seems unpredictable because it has a distinct culture and social system. It is still a mystery to other parts of the world, even though the veil of China has been lifted many times as a result of globalization.

- Ai Weiwei

source: "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

topic: Veils, World, Culture

The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Veils

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

- Lord Chesterfield

source: Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.293

topic: Self, Ego, Veils

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.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1832). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.411

topic: Stars, Veils, May, Elegy

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

- Jerzy Kosinski

source: Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Veils, Rooms, Helping

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Birth of Tragedy: Or Hellenism and Pessimism”, p.66, The Floating Press

topic: Veils, Action, Illusion

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

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Needs, Veils, Sun

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.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3047, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Practice, Shining, Veils

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

source: Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.128, Cambridge University Press

topic: Fate, Issues, Veils

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

- Plutarch

source: Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.72

topic: Veils, Mortals

The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Men, Veils, Holiness, Holiness Of God

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

- R. D. Laing

topic: Veils, Truth Is, Secrecy

Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace -- the many inquiries -- the fond regrets and thrilling hopes -- it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness.

- George Henry Lewes

source: George Henry Lewes (1847). “Ranthorpe ...”, p.317

topic: Regret, Veils, Inquiry

A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It ... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew.

- Theodor Adorno

source: Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.13, Columbia University Press

topic: Thinking, Veils, Approach

Humanity's mission is to find a peace that lies beyond the veil - a peace that is not of this world. The peace that is not of this world is not dependent on human circumstances.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Source: rayhemachandra.com

topic: Lying, Humanity, Veils

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

source: Source: articles.latimes.com

topic: People, Veils, Return

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.90, Harvard University Press

topic: Men, Imagination, Veils, Mediators, Admonish

The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution.

- Mark Levin

topic: Justice, Liberty, Veils, Moral Indignation

Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.

- Timothy Keller

topic: Rip, Together, Veils

Bryan Cranston is generous, he's funny. When we did a wedding scene [in The Infiltrator ], at the end of the movie with a big set piece, he put the veil off the bride, he put it on, he pretended like we were getting married, he's just a goof.

- John Leguizamo

source: "John Leguizamo on ‘The Infiltrator’, ‘John Wick 2′, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 15, 2016.

topic: Pieces, Veils, Married, Goofs

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

- John Lubbock

topic: Ignorance, Rising, Veils

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

- Martin Luther

topic: Veils, Deals, Creatures

[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.

- David Hume

source: David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.4460, Delphi Classics

topic: Veils, Arms, Opinion

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

source: Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

topic: Men, Velvet, Veils

But what about you? Have you prayed about your own ancestors’ work? Set aside those things in your life that don’t really matter. Decide to do something that will have eternal consequences. Perhaps you have been prompted to look for ancestors but feel you are not a genealogist. Can you see that you don’t have to be anymore? It all begins with love and a sincere desire to help those beyond the veil who can’t help themselves. Check around. There will be someone in your area who can help you have success.

- Richard G. Scott

topic: Desire, Looks, Veils

Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.221, Oxford University Press

topic: Men, Atheism, Veils, Dens

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

- Hafez

topic: Grieving, Delight, Veils, Concealed

Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.

- Rick Warren

source: FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 26, 2016

topic: Jesus, Veils, Splits

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.270, Harriet Beecher Stowe

topic: Midnight, Veils, Strange

The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Adventure, Watches, Veils

The soul is covered by a thousand veils.

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

topic: Soul, Veils, Thousand

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

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

topic: Insanity, Age, Veils

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

- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

topic: Two, Special, Veils

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

source: 1942 One Man's Meat, 'Poetr y'.

topic: Beauty, Doe, Veils

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. 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. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

- E. B. White

source: 1942 One Man's Meat, 'Poetr y'.

topic: Poetry, Doe, Veils

The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Eye, Veils, Conceit, Pretender, Discerning

Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

topic: Humility, Serenity, Veils, Manifold

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Clouds, Veils, Shrouds

Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.

- Honore de Balzac

source: Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.46, 谷月社

topic: Clouds, Veils

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

topic: Clothes, Veils, Advantage, Dressers

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

- William Butler Yeats

source: The Countess Kathleen (1892) "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

topic: Morning, Veils, Dropping

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

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Christian, Heart, Veils, Pious

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

- Milton Jones

topic: Funny, Humor, Veils

The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.

- William Ellery Channing

source: William Ellery Channing (1888). “The Works of William E. Channing”

topic: Miracle, Veils, Majesty

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.

- Rumi

topic: Veils, Again And Again

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

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

topic: Artist, Veils, Seven, Salome

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Hands, Veils, Faces

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.

- Edwin Arnold

source: Various, Helmuth von Glasenapp, Nyanamoli Thera, Nyanaponika Thera, Acarya Buddharakkhita (2008). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume II: Numbers 16–30”, p.399, Buddhist Publication Society

topic: Eye, Mind, Veils, Searchers

Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.

- Kevin Mitnick

topic: Veils, Social, Cloaks, Believability

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Night, Dawn, Veils

Growth is a painful process. If we’re ever going to collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we’re going to have to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.

- Wilma Mankiller

topic: Moving, Growth, Veils

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.

- J. K. Rowling