Shrouds Quotes

• You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Design, Pockets, Interior Design

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• So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud,
  Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed
  Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.

  John Keats

  Hope, Sweet, Dark

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.6, Рипол Классик

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• Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.

  Alexander Pope

  Zephyr, Breathe, Train

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.38, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

  Horace

  Wise, Future, Darkness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 304-06, Carmina, III. 29. 29, 1922.

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• Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Causes, Kind

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.47, South End Press

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• Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.

  Langston Hughes

  Black, Proud, Banner

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.171, University of Missouri Press

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• Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the “Nation,” it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry.

  Arundhati Roy

  Art, Independent, Thinking

  "Come September". Arundhati Roy's Speech at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM, September 29, 2002.

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• The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.

  J. G. Ballard

  Thinking, Race, Logos

  J. G. Ballard (2006). “Kingdom Come”, HarperCollins UK

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• And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
  Left here without the light I loved so much,
  In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.

  Petrarch

  Life, Grief, Light

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• Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone.

  Richard Armour

  Atheist, Children, Believe

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• Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Memories, Lying, Night

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.138, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

  Honore de Balzac

  Clouds, Veils

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• A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
  [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum
  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

  Horace

  Wise, Future, Darkness

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• Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.

  Milan Kundera

  Sides, Uniforms, Nudity

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• Royalty is a fine burial shroud.

  Theodora

  Royalty, Fine, Burial

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• 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

  Grief, Joy, Veils

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• The clouds are scudding across the moon,
  A misty light is on the sea;
  The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune,
  And the foam is flying free.

  Bayard Taylor

  Moon, Clouds, Light

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.366

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• Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth,
  Man's resurrection, and the future's bud
  Shroud in their births.

  Henry Vaughan

  Morning, Men, Firsts

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• And the great spirit of darkness spread a shroud over me...everything was silent-everything. But upon the heights soughed the everlasting song, the voice of the air, the distant, toneless humming which is never silent.

  Knut Hamsun

  Song, Air, Voice

  Knut Hamsun (2015). “Hunger”, p.40, Xist Publishing

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• We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.

  Rick Riordan

  Son, Needs, Hermes

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• And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wind, Play, Ships

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.30

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• Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

  Arundhati Roy

  People, Patriotism, Brain

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• But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live.

  Steve Almond

  Distance, Dirty, Fog

  Steve Almond (2007). “(Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions”, p.33, Random House

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• Ask not of me, love, what is love?
  Ask what is good of God above;
  Ask of the great sun what is light;
  Ask what is darkness of the night;
  Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
  Ask what is happiness of heaven;
  Ask what is folly of the crowd;
  Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
  Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
  Ask of thyself what beauty is.

  Philip James Bailey

  Love, Life, Fashion

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.265

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• I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

  Lord Byron

  Ideas, Dissent

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 113

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