Eyes
Quotes - What the eyes had seen could not be erased
“I
believe you!' the artiste exclaimed finally and extinguishes his gaze. 'I do!
These eyes are not lying! How many times have I told you that your basic error
consists in underestimating the significance of the human eye. Understand that
the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes - never! A sudden question is
put to you, you don't even flinch, in one second you get hold of yourself and
know what you must say to conceal the truth, and you speak quite convincingly,
and not a wrinkle on your face moves, but - alas - the truth which the question
stirs up from the bottom of your soul leaps momentarily into your eyes, and
it's all over! They see it, and you're caught!”
―
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
“Open
your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it
to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.”
―
Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship
“I
am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold.
-
Coloured Money”
―
Mervyn Peake, Collected Poems
“Beshrew
your eyes,
They
have o'erlook'd me and divided me;
One
half of me is yours, the other half yours,
Mine
own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And
so all yours.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“From
women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They
sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They
are the books, the arts, the academes,
That
show, contain and nourish all the world.”
―
Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
“[A]
person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.”
―
Christine de Pizan, Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc
“She
had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and
very good.”
―
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“As
you entered the room
stirring
air with suppleness of walk,
waking
up the stillness with jingles of cymbals,
making
curtains dance to the sound of bangles:
aroma
wafted into air from canvas and copybooks,
my
paintbrush grew restless,
and
pen became enraptured;
my
eyes, and hands. and this and that
became
electrified.”
―
Suman Pokhrel
“"You
see that, my Zosia?" he had asked. "That is the devil. When a man
cannot see a person as a person, then the devil has slipped into him and is
peering out of his eyes."”
―
Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents
“His
eyes reflected the open grey of the autumnal sky.”
―
Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest
“If
you are not the body
Why
should I enrich scenes
before
your eyes?”
―
Suman Pokhrel
“When
I closed my eyes
withdrawing
myself from darkness
I
saw light glowing everywhere.”
―
Suman Pokhrel
“Eye
can only see something if
idea
about it has been in mind.”
―
Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Blue
is the most common eye color in Oria Province, but there is something different
about his eyes and I'm not sure what it is. More depth? I wonder what he sees
when he looks at me. If he seems to have depth to me, do I seem shallow and
transparent to him?”
―
Ally Condie, Matched
“What
the eyes had seen could not be erased.”
―
Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
“La
Maga did not know that my kisses were like eyes which began to open up beyond
her, and that I went along outside as if I saw a different concept of the
world, the dizzy pilot of a black prow which cut the water of time and negated
it.”
―
Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
“Majority
of women like to fantasize and men like to romanticize. I saw a painful
mountain in her eyes.”
―
Santosh Kalwar
“You
can never heal completely. The scars will always stay behind, just to remind
how cruel the time was once to you. But someday, you will learn to see beauty
in the world that gave you these scars. And your eyes will shine with no lies
in it. That day, you become beautiful. With baring all the scars, Which you
always tried to hide from everyone.”
―
Akshay Vasu
“The
horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man
appears much larger than the horse itself.”
―
Stanisław Lem, Highcastle: A Remembrance
“If
there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real
divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human honors this life, has genuine
spiritual fire and is full of honest love and compassion, it has to be right
there, in the eyes.
The
Dalai Lama's eyes sparkle and dance with laughter and unbridled love. The
Pope's eyes are dark and glazed, bleak as obsidian marbles. Pat Robertson's
eyes are rheumy and hollow, like tiny potholes of old wax. Goldman Sachs
cretins, well, they don't use their own eyes at all; they just steal someone
else's.”
―
Mark Morford
“What
the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve about.”
―
James Hadley Chase
“The
men laugh at the witty line, but it is not a belly laugh. Beasley's mouth is in
a wide smile, but his eyes do not laugh, for there is little reason for joy.
And if eyes are indeed mirrors of the soul, then they reflect an infinite
sadness. I look away, afraid of what mine might reflect”
―
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“I
have passed by many eyes but only got lost in yours.”
―
Mahmoud Darwish
“I
looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade,
pale grey, flecked with yellow, rimmed with black. Now I knew the nature of her
debt. It had weighed on her conscience for fourteen years. I was looking into
the eyes of mother and I knew that I would never see her again.”
―
Celia Rees, Witch Child
“Her
eyes narrowed until they were a faint greenish glitter, like a forest pool far
back in the shadow of trees.”
―
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
“Fashion
Fact: Most people make the assumption that I wear trendy shades the majority of
the time (often indoors) to protect my eyes from the elements. But in fact it's
the reverse. I'm protecting the elements from the brilliance of my eyes.”
―
Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, Here's the Situation: A Guide to
Creeping on Chicks, Avoiding Grenades, and Getting in Your GTL on the Jersey
Shore
“The
eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease
to.”
―
Arshile Gorky
“They
were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if
she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
“...eyes
that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.”
―
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
“Across
the seat our eyes are holding hands.”
―
Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe
“And
what about the lovers who spend hours staring into each other's eyes? Is it a
display of trust? 'I will let you in close and trust you not to hurt me while
I'm in this vulnerable position.' And if trust is one of the foundations of
love, perhaps the staring is a way to build or reinforce it. Or maybe it's
simpler than that.
A
simple search for connection
To
see.
To
be seen.”
―
Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
“Taking
in the good, whenever and wherever we find it, gives us new eyes for seeing and
living.”
―
Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
“She
is psychic a little voodoo magic soulful with cranberry lips eyes full of
fantastic.”
―
Melody Lee, Vine: Book of Poetry
“I
should've known the eyes. Wide, bright blue, and something about the delicate
arc of the lids: a cat's slant, a pale jeweled girl in an old painting, a
secret.”
―
Tana French, The Secret Place
