Eyes Quotes
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If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.
Sarah Dessen
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Everything was fading, all the lights in the room going out. And the sun, too. It was all so odd, as if the whole world had stepped out, run away from her—left her. Alone. In the dark. God. Everything was as black as Andrés Segovia’s eyes.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
[Fr., Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.]
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?”
Annie Ernaux
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All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
Evelyn Underhill
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This airport has been designed with big windows viewing the runways, so if there's a crash everybody can feast upon it with their own eyes. The fireball, the fuselage doing a slow skidding twirl, shedding its wings.
John Updike
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Pondering, which means to weigh mentally, to deliberate, to meditate, can achieve the opening of the spiritual eyes of one's understanding.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.
Eva Figes
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Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.
Emilia Lanier
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas Carlyle
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Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.
Robert Frost
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In the crush men used the women to play silent games with themselves. One stared ironically at a dark-haired girl to see if she would lower her gaze. One, with his eyes, caught a bit of lace between two buttons of a blouse, or harpooned a strap. Others passed the time looking out the window into cars for a glimpse of an uncovered leg, the play of muscles as a foot pushed break or clutch, a hand absentmindedly scratching the inside of a thigh.
Elena Ferrante
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To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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When you call his name, he does open his eyes. Occasionally he turns his head.
J. M. Roberts
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You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.
Johnny Depp
