Eyelids Quotes

• [T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Medical
  • Hot
  • Mask

• There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids.

  

  Ian Matthias Bavitz
  • Smoke
  • Eyelids
  • Sunny Day

• I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Outside
  • Eyelids
  • Headfirst

• Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun? Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken. Like the light. Like me. I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn’t have one. I am surrounded by walls. I have just replaced one box for another.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Light
  • Sun
  • Images

• I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.

  

  Wojciech Kurtyka
  • Dream
  • Mountain
  • Climbing

• Makeup is such a weird concept. I'll wake up in the morning and look in the mirror. 'Gee, I really don't look so good. Maybe if my eyelids were blue, I'd be more attractive.

  

  Cathy Ladman
  • Morning
  • Looks
  • Blue

• I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Trying
  • Behinds
  • Eyelids

• Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.

  

  Homer
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Eyelids

• Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.

  

  Ephrem the Syrian
  • Blessed
  • Sense
  • Regard

• With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • inspirational
  • Labor
  • Fingers

• When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Clothes
  • Raises
  • Eyelids