Shroud Quotes (8 quotes)

“Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high
Around its sigh, no more alone the sky
Other birds remain away, clouds pass by
Between shrouds of life and haze sun rays die”
― Munia Khan

tags: alone, between, bird, bird-quotes, birds, cloud, clouds, die, eagle, eagle-quotes, eagles, flight, haze, high, life, loneliness, poem, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, ray, remain, shroud, shrouds, sigh, sky, soar, sun, sunrays, verse, way

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“Such is true joy’s absolute certainty,
Its slow lit fuse that burns holes
In the shabby shroud of death forever.”
― Scott Hastie

tags: absolute, burn, burns, certainty, death, death-and-dying, forever, fuse, holes, joy, poetry, poetry-quotes, shabby, shroud, slow, spiritual-quotes, spirituality, true, wisdom

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“Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs; some wear one to conceal their age.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: age, age-is-nothing-but-a-number, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, attire, blanket, block-out, blot-out, clothes, clothing, cloud, conceal, disclose, display, dress, dresses, eclipse, elderly, envelop, exhibit, fashion, female, females, funny, girl, girls, hide, humor, humour, joke, jokes, mini, mini-skirt, miniskirt, obscure, obstruct, old, reveal, revealing, satire, short-skirt, short-skirts, show, shroud, skirt, skirts, thigh, thighs, uncloak, uncover, unveil, veil, wear, wearing, woman, women, women-s-wear, wore, wrinkle, wrinkles, young, younger

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“We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul)”
― Charles de Leusse

tags: alone, death, knit, life, linceul, mort, seul, shroud, tricoter, vie

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“In the last photograph of her, the bullet wound looked like a cheerful summer rose arranged just above her left ear. A few petals had fallen on her kaffan, the white shroud she was wrapped in before she was laid to rest.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

tags: blood, dead-body, rose, shroud, wound

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“The sky is clear with sunshine shinning on everything. Within this light I can feel the shroud of the coming storm fast approaching”
― Jazz Feylynn

tags: approaching, coming, fast, feel, jazz-feylynn, light, shroud, sky-is-clear, storm, sunshine-shinning

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“Half of the answers to your problems are shrouded in your everyday dreams.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson , The Oneironaut’s Diary

tags: answer, everyday-life, life-questions, lucid, lucid-dreaming, lucid-dreams, problems-in-life, questions-and-answers, questions-in-life, shroud

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“Every shroud has a silver lining…”
― Neil Mach, Curiosity Killed the Chicken

tags: shroud, silver-lining, silver-linings

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