We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all. — Rene Magritte
Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. — Milan Kundera
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. — Sophia Loren
To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire. — Democritus
The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. — Edward F. Halifax
Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible. — Rene Magritte
Fragrance is the first layer of dressing, a woman's invisible body suit. — Donna Karan
The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides. — Maajid Nawaz
Short Veil Quotes
You don't fall in love with a gender, you fall in love with a person. — Andy Biersack
Be who you want to be and not care about what others think. — Andy Biersack
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see. — Omar Khayyam
We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes. — Alexander Rodchenko
Take joy in who you are, we know our wings are flawed. — Andy Biersack
Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back. — Andy Biersack
Every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back. — Andy Biersack
Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for. — Kabir
Never give in, never back down. — Andy Biersack
Where you are right now blast some music and forget. — Andy Biersack
Veil Image Quotes
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Pierce The Veil Quotes
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? — Jerry Smith
People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist. — Frederick Lenz
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
I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough. — Emily Carr
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 — Thomas Southerne
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
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. — Shigeo Shingo
The Painted Veil Quotes
Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature. — Franz Marc
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity. — William Baziotes
When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed. — Michele Cassou
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. — Thomas Cole
Behind The Veil Quotes
Finally, please remember this. If you EVER need something that you can stand behind, something to help you to take on and deflect all of the hatred of this often cruel world, you will ALWAYS have Black Veil Brides. — Andy Biersack
When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought. — Matthieu Ricard
In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn. — Kahlil Gibran
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees. — Sri Aurobindo
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance. — John Rawls
Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn. — Kahlil Gibran
The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire. — Charles Dickens
Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil. — Loreena McKennitt
All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep. — Rumi
Congress' dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters and its misconduct is exposed. This will no longer go unchallenged. The younger generation will not accept these actions of Congress! — Narendra Modi
Black Veil Brides Quotes
Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter
where you are right now blast some music and forget
about lifes problems. — Andy Biersack
Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives. — Sayings
And the people who say things to you about the way you look and the way you dress, they have nothing more to their lives. That's all they do, and you have something more in you. — Andy Biersack
Pages of revelation lie open in your empty eyes of blue — Andy Biersack
Alchohol doesn't make you fat...it make you Lean...on tables, chairs & random people!!! — Sayings
We''d like to be welcomed with open arms and open legs — Andy Biersack
If you cross a pickle with a female deer...You get a dill-doe! — Ashley Purdy
everyone is naked... under their clothes. — Ashley Purdy
Follow your heart and chase your dreams until you catch them. Negative people who say you cant do something are only speaking for themselves — Jake Pitts
Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more fulfilled person than they can ever be because they're caught up in what they hate rather than what they love. — Andy Biersack
Dear friend,
Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets. — Al-Ghazali
[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
A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth. — Marion Woodman
All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest. — Bayazid Bastami
All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest. — Bayazid AlBistami
Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the
past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I
just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap. — Townes Van Zandt
At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a veil over our perception, and we return to a darkness almost as dense as before. We are like those who, though beholding frequent flashes of lightning, still find themselves in the thickest darkness of the night. — Maimonides
Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that is not performed for His sake then it is wasted and severed. Every heart that does not reach Him is wretched; veiled from achieving its success and happiness. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what? — Edward Abbey
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
I promise you that all who faithfully attend to temple work will be blessed
beyond measure. Your families will draw closer to the Lord, unseen angels
will watch over your loved ones when satanic forces tempt them, the veil
will be thin, and great spiritual experiences
will distill upon this people. — Vaughn J Featherstone
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. — Helen Rowland
You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly. — Andrew Solomon
The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us — Carl Jung
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. — Mary Faustina Kowalska
All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth. — Jimmy Breslin
The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.” “In prayer all are equal. — Rumi
But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors. — Virginia Woolf
Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes...reach the light of day? — Hans Scholl
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 — Paramahansa Yogananda
The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being. — Ram Dass
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. — Octave Mirbeau
The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter in trousers, without a veil on their head, in short clothing, low necklines, sleeveless or immodest dresses. — Pio of Pietrelcina
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