Top Shroud Quotes

  • 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

    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

  • And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. – Walt Whitman

    And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.– Walt Whitman

  • …it struck her, this was tragedy– not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued. – Virginia Woolf

    …it struck her, this was tragedy– not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.– Virginia Woolf

  • Such is true joy’s absolute certainty,Its slow lit fuse that burns holesIn the shabby shroud of death forever. – Scott Hastie

    Such is true joy’s absolute certainty,Its slow lit fuse that burns holesIn the shabby shroud of death forever.– Scott Hastie

  • The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself. – Jim Butcher

    The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.– Jim Butcher

  • [T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. – Herman Melville

    [T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.– Herman Melville