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Eyes quotes
Fear punches holes in your eyes so that you don’t see the future clearly. Faith enlarges your vision to behold your destiny.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Ladder
Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.
— Warsan Shire
You can truly value life, when you have looked Death in the eyes and held its hand.
— Lionel Suggs
Try again. No no no, eyes up, eyes up! When you bow to someone you look at them, not at the floor. Don’t look at her in the eye though lad, that’s rude. And not THERE, either.
— Stephen Deas, The Thief-Taker’s Apprentice
I put fear into the eyes of a member of the Mafia. I’m doing well, she thought, now keep him scared.
— Wendy Ely, Dangerous Flames
Order is a slippery thing: it’s in the eyes of the beholder and the judgments of the powerful. Safety is clearer: it’s freedom from violence and intrusion.
— Chris Hayes, Colony In A Nation
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
— Kate Chopin
Love flows from me into him, and his blue eyes crinkle, huge and happy. Such a smiley baby. The midwife says it can’t be a real smile, not yet, just some passing gas or a random quiver of his lip, but I know she’s wrong.
— J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
Dreamers have sharp ears like spear and sharp eyes like an eagle.
— Euginia Herlihy
The tears and the pain all but blinding her, she forced open her eyes one more time, to a curtain of dark hair; to a waterfall of black ink spilling across the last page of her life. No. I’m not nothing. I was loved.
— Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn
His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse
Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.
— Agnes Whistling Elk
True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.
— Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously… I’m Kidding
Hot heart-blood leaked from my face. From my eyes and my nose and my mouth. Not tears, because those would never stop. This was just liquid heartbreak seeping from my pores.
— Jasinda Wilder, Falling into You
See life and feel its pulses with the eyes of a compassionate mother.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. And all that cometh is vanity.
— Compton Gage
Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open.
— Donna Tartt
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
— Hannah More
Henry narrowed his eyes at me. “You going somewhere?””Lacrosse field trip, ” I said. “I enjoy whacking the hell out of people with mallets.
— Robin Benway, The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June
Your self-esteem won’t come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.
— Stacy London
Ball caps travel far and wide. They do far more than keep the sun out of your eyes or the cold off your head. Ball caps are a statement.
— George Vecsey
He’s adorably high-handed where you’re concerned, isn’t he?”My eyes slide closed. “With anyone.” “No, ” he says thoughtfully. “Only you. He really can’t be bothered with anyone else, unless they’re connected to you. You’re all he sees.
— Lily Morton, Rule Breaker
Sure, ” she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. “What could go wrong?”Michael’s eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.Besides everything, I mean, ” she said.
— Rachel Caine, Fade Out
My eyes went to him. “Your rule, honey. I can go put panties on.” His eyes came to me. “You do, I get the strap.
— Kristen Ashley, Knight
I long to look at my holiday season with eyes that see the Christ in Christmas.
— Ann Marie Stewart, Preparing My Heart for Advent
The most terrifying part was that the evil dwelling in those eyes could’ve gone unnoticed by many.
— Sidney Knight, Alex
Milena’s eyes seemed to go hot and heavy. Praise made her heartsick; she was so unused to it, and needed it so badly.
— Geoff Ryman, The Child Garden
Inside, my soul is curled tightly bearing the burden of massive sins from another life. And my eyes look far at the hell around me… a sharp grin tugs at the corner of my lips.
— Hubert Martin
Can you imagine what it would be like to look into somebody’s eyes and know that their destiny is so much greater than yours, that you will never compete? You will always be left behind.
— Lois Lane
Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely and unreservedly to Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Your eyes, ‘ Asha grunted as he looked at him briefly. ‘Turn them off.’ He clicked his fingers and Blitzen’s eyes blinked and when they opened only the whites of his eyes were visible, all he could see was darkness.
— Keisha Keenleyside, The Spirit Master
For a split second, I wondered if he were some type of sexy sorcerer, who was able to remove my clothing by the force of his will alone. I squeezed my eyes shut and focused on the buttons of his shirt, willing them to pop
— M.C. Lavocat, Control
When you eyes is fixed on the prize or reward.It gives you hope to stay focus until the vision is fulfilled.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Liz Emerson held so much darkness within her that closing her eyes didn’t make much a difference at all.
— Amy Zhang
Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
In life moments arrive where the mouth becomes tongueless and the eyes become tongue!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
People whose eyes shine are happy to be alive. They see life and it’s glory even when things aren’t easy.And because they see life, even through all the problems and obstacles, their eyes shine.
— Jelena Pantić, Journey to the Center of the Heart
Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tear filled eyes glisten in the firelight. She’s so fucking beautiful that it hurts to look at her, but it’s an ache I hope to feel for as long as I live, because the pain of losing her again…that I don’t think I’d survive.
— Heather M. Orgeron, Boomerangers
Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out. . . and she said, “So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control.
— Laura Munson, This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
The tears come to my eyes so fast, there’s just no way to stop them.
— Jonathan Tropper, How to Talk to a Widower
I had to feel sorry for Bubba’s wife. In AA we called it denial. We take the asp to our breast and smile at the alarm we see in the eyes of others.
— James Lee Burke
You? I know you! You trust beyond reason.”She met his eyes steadily. “Yes. It’s how I get results beyond hope. As you may recall.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. “It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying.
— Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
— Gertrude Stein
Sometimes life holds more than people allow themselves to see. Such individuals may continue to live as though they are blind for eternities before realizing they were merely clamping their eyes shut.
— Emily Herr
His face was gaunt, scraped and bloody, his hair dusted with cobwebs, but when he locked eyes with her, she thought he had never looked more handsome.Percy & Annabeth
— Rick Riordan
Tears sprang from her eyes and she bit her lip to stop herself from howling at the bright pain.
— Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path
I’m supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me.
— Marie Lu, Legend
Cheekbones that cut like ice and eyes like liquid scotch. Loren Hale is an alcoholic beverage and he doesn’t even know it.
— Krista Ritchie, Addicted to You
With night’s Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.
— Adelaide Crapsey, Verse by Adelaide Crapsey
I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
— William Tyndale
Your ears hear much, but your heart hears more.Your eyes see much, but your mind sees more.Your toungue says much, but your soul says more.Your feet travel much, but your imagination travels more.Your hands do much, but your mind does more.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Kathel, you have the face of a scoundrel.” Her eyes drifted slowly over his face and landed for a moment on his full lips. “With lips created for sin.””Keirah, ” he whispered, gently squeezing her hands. “Talk like that is not helping matters.
— Madison Thorne Grey, Magnificence
Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God’s eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I’ve been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don’t affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)
— Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
To douchebags!” he said, gesturing to Brad. “And to girls that break your heart, ” he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. “And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.
— Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
Every thing—every atom is conscious. To find it we have to open our eyes and see with a higher consciousness.
— Debasish Mridha
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they’re mean bastards at heart.
— J. D. Salinger
Lexie, I practically sold my soul to get where I am today. I’m a selfish bastard … and you …” His eyes washed over my face. “You’ve already lost everything to keep your soul intact.
— Samantha Young, Hero
Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more.
— Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
Baseball was a safe bet. Baseball also didn’t have a girlfriend. Then again, baseball didn’t have big brown eyes or show a little hint of cleavage under its uniforms. Decisions, decisions.
— Rachel Spangler, Heart of the Game
Life is brighter than we think and better as we are. We just need to open our eyes and follow our heart.
— Nina Hrusa
Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni!
— Avijeet Das
Think with your eyes open.
— Shelly Crane
As soon as we open our eyes in the morning, what we want most is to matter, to live a life and to do a work that has meaning. We have evolved to feel this way. Man’s first thought was ‘I AM’.
— Bernadette Jiwa, Difference: The one-page method for reimagining your business and reinventing your marketing
You are infinitely capable. You don’t live in the universe. You are the universe. You are the entire universe experiencing itself through the eyes of one human. And thus, you are free to create the reality you choose.
— Michael Sanders
Tanned, toned, curves in the right places and that small waist…lips, hair, eyes all packaged up like a siren. If she’s a siren, I heard her call, and I’m diving in hook, line, and sinker. – Drew Donovan
— Kailin Gow, Falling for Summer (Donovan Brothers #1)
Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes, and meditate to know if the world’s true or lies, may do so. It’s their choice. But I meanwhilewith hungry eyes that can’t be satisfiedshall take a look at the world in broad daylight.
— Rabindranath Tagore
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
— Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Count yourself fortunate.” He made an elegant sweep of his hand toward the sun. “Daylight does not make them turn to ash, but they become bloody damn infants, whinging on about irritated eyes and sluggish limbs and so forth.
— Lynn Viehl, Night Lost
I couldn’t resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown.He’s just not as tall, but I couldn’t tell, it was dark and I was lying down.
— Amy Winehouse
Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
the eyes of your understanding will see through to get Great Success
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom: the tripartite force in the pursuit of Divine Access
I feared that if I let him, it would be the final push over a ledge I had been precariously hovering on since the day I had first laid eyes on him.
— Nicole R. Locker, Tragedy and Desire
When you’re scared, when you close your eyes … just know there is nothing left to fear!
— Stephen Richards
The woman was Diana Vreeland, the high priestess of fashion and legendary fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue. Dana paused, eyes wide. Well, perhaps she was a bit star-struck after all.
— Lynn Steward, A Very Good Life
As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.
— James E. Faust
What made him most attractive was that he was attracted to her. Another’s interest can be a powerful stimulant. She could feel his eyes on her as an almost physical pressure.
— Tracy Chevalier, The Last Runaway
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
— Leonardo da Vinci
she tries to envision spaceeven with her eyes open
— Anna Jae
He cups my facewith both handsleans in, eyes lingering asweet secondbefore his lips are there on mine, teasing, playing, tasting, kissing.When he pulls away, I’m breathless.He nuzzles my ear.”Now that’s thrilling.”You got that right.
— Lisa Schroeder, The Day Before
It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.
— James Hilton, Lost Horizon
I could have sworn that the man’s eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy beyond measure.
— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Hell Screen
I breath.I eat. I walk. My eyes are open . my tongue moves. I speak . I listen. Then why people who come around me think that I’m a toy ?
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, “Zaki’s Gift Of Love”
She opened one eye. “The goddess Artemis is going to talk to the supreme god Zeus … about me?” “Yup.” She closed her eyes again. “I’m so not okay.
— Rosanna Leo, Sunburn
her eyes are unfathomable to me, hostile, even, as if she had removed herself to a place where I cannot reach her – somewhere I cannot know.
— Carol Lee, To Die For
You haven’t seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.
— Tanela Hicks
Dad they think she has Down Syndrome.” He smiled genuinely as his eyes welled up with tears. “That’s okay. We love her.
— Kelle Hampton, Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected–A Memoir
Living is hard–dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What’s so difficult about that? Nothing really–except it hurts like hell to those you leave behind.
— Rachel Van Dyken, Ruin
That girl’s heart is bigger than Texas.” Her eyes narrowed. “And it’s as tender as a baby’s butt. You take care with it, you hear?
— Rachel Harris, Accidentally Married on Purpose
Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
I need to confront my loss, not run away from it. I wanted to wade in with my eyes open and all my senses alert. I wanted to register everything, from the giant waves of sorrow to the inkiest ripples of remorse. I didn’t want to miss any of it.
— Alex George, Setting Free the Kites
Khione’s eyes flared pure white. For once, she seemed at a loss for words. She stormed back up the stairs—literally. Halfway up, she turned into a blizzard and disappeared.
— Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
Eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn’t enough. Because all of the sudden, in Egypt, my beach had grown from a tiny beach in Maine to one eight hundred miles long, next to the Nile.
— Sarah Parcak
Some have eyes but they can’t see. Some can see but have no eyes
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Your eyes hold all the answers to my life’s problems.
— Avijeet Das
I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can’t see
— I can’t talk properly
You know Morse Code?” Avian asked as we walked up.“My grandpa thought it was a fun game when I was little, ” West said as he rubbed his eyes again. ”That’s a scientist’s version of fun for you.
— Keary Taylor, Eden
I could be the ceaseless mist that fogs your colourless eyes when you’re lost in your universes.
— Moonshine Noire
In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world’s still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
— Christopher Nolan
And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
— Donald Cargill
Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Not “Revelation” – tis – that waitsBut our unfurnished eyes –
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
If you ever leave me again, ’ she said, her eyes stinging, ‘I swear to all the gods-‘Percy had the nerve to laugh. Suddenly the lump of heated emotions melted inside Annabeth.‘Consider me warned, ’ Percy said. ‘I missed you, too.
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
Thank you Jonah.” He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don’t sting. “For what?” he whispers. ” For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million.
— Katie McGarry, Red at Night
War in men’s eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory’s sake; – Wait a little longer.
— Charles Mackay
I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I’m relieved that hope isn’t a tangible thing, because everyone around me would see mine crumbling.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Your eyes betray a sadness that only a worthy man can conjure, but never solve
— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko, Sprout of Disruption
The woman at the next table is making eyes at you, ” Lanie said, whispering conspiratorially.“Really? What does she make them out of? Cloth?
— M.K. Schiller, The Do-Over
I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I wanted her so badly I didn’t even realize I lost myself in the process. Now, when I look in the mirror, I only see her… where is me?
— Hubert Martin
Your eyes tell me everything about you.Your words only confirm it.
— Anthony T.Hinks
The eyes of his friend were moist and dark, and in them he saw the little rectangled pictures of himself that he had watched a thousand times.
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
I got swirling eyes and the capacity to shatter windows with my bare voice. Tod got teleportation and invisibility. The supernatural world is so far from fair.
— Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Keep
Only with the closing of the eyes are we truly free.
— Tyler J. Hebert
Remember that human wisdom is madness in the eyes of God. But if we listen to the child who lives in our soul, our eyes will grow bright.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
To shut your eyes is to travel.
— Emily Dickinson
If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.
— Anthony Liccione
Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the other, but I should rather choose to have my eyes burnt in their sockets than to have been born without.
— Anne Fortier, Juliet
So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
— Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
So this, Harriet thought, gazing at her black-clad reflection, was what bearing up looked like. The eyes in the mirror stared at her, somehow, while fixing themselves far
— Jude Morgan
She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches she waits she learns, and in the second she blinks, she changes her mind just like that.
— Anthony Liccione
People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
— Andy Warhol
You have done well, ” Grandfather said. “We thank you.””We were afraid sometimes, ” Jetsam replied.”Good.” Grandfather’s eyes smiled. “That means you had the courage to keep trying.
— Sheila Moon, Knee-Deep in Thunder
if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn’t there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That’s why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
— Alan W. Watts
His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.
— Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I’m Dead
Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and onto Christ!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I closed my eyes and resigned myself to the fact that my boyfriend was a pervert. He was lucky he was so cute.
— J.M. Colail, Wes and Toren
But she bravely kept her eyes open; she was both lost and found in the soft, burning depths of his eyes.
— Julie Anne Long
I don’t answer. I shut my eyes and hold my breath and hope whoever it is will think I’m not here and go home.
— Jennifer Weiner, Who Do You Love
I never thought I had a soul, but in that moment when our eyes met and our hands touched in greeting, my soul screamed for joy.
— Celeste Carrara, Give Me Forever
The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.
— German proverb
The far we can see, we are! It is time we lifted our eyes beyond the horizon of our present boundaries and see goodies ahead of us.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone
I missed you , I missed everything about youYour magical eyes , Your heavenly smile …Baby I’m in love with you
— Sami Abouzid
When you go to buy use your eyes not your ears.
— Czech proverb
[A] competent magician should have the ability to stand still at a bus stop with closed eyes and have the entire universe disappear apart from a single blazing visualised sigil or muttered spell.
— Peter J. Carroll, The Octavo: A Sorcerer-Scientist’s Grimoire
Next o’er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.
— Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
My heartfelt appreciation goes out to Jan Zwicky, Don McKay, John Barton, Barry Dempster, Carolyn Forché and Elizabeth Philips for their masterful eyes and minds.
— Leigh Kotsilidis, Hypotheticals
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
— Joseph Addison
I’ve learnt that eyes don’t change. No matter how old or beat up you get, your eyes stay the same.
— Eloise Dyson, Divided
Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Damn it! Are you so stupid you don’t know what I’m going to do to you?”Her eyes bore into his without flinching. “Are you so stupid you haven’t figured out yet that it doesn’t matter?
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Dream a Little Dream
With every morsel I ate, I looked into her eyes and apologised for not being able to feed her enough. Her eyes, in turn, apologised for not being able to help me in these tough times.
— Ashay Abbhi
Train your eyes to see the beauty in every little thing.
— Debasish Mridha
Baby , In your eyes Sweet memories of the good times we had
— Sami Abouzid
Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.
— Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.
— Paul Harding, Tinkers
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn’t certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
— A. Lee Martinez, In the Company of Ogres
God wants to dance with us. The goal of dancing is NOT to learn the steps. The goal of dancing is to enjoy your partner. We learn the steps but only so we don’t have to look down at our feet. We are free to look into the eyes of the one we love.
— Nicole Johnson, Fresh Brewed Life A Stirring Invitation To Wake Up Your Soul
You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose.
— P.D. James, The Children of Men
Your relationships will take you beyond the boundaries of your normal strength. Encouragement gives struggling people eyes to see the unseen Christ.
— Timothy S. Lane, Relationships: A Mess Worth Making
I can’t believe you just did that! Are you crazy?”I gripped the steering wheel tighter. “Why do people keep asking me that?”He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. “Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?
— Janette Rallison, Just One Wish
If when you think of yourself, you think only of your physical body –even if you are physically fit and firm, at your ideal weight with beautiful hair, eyes or lips- if that is how you gauge your success, you are mistaken
— Sunday Adelaja
I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, “You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.
— Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
You see this radiant Flower that sparkles magic.Like your eyes when I see them radiated magic.Marty B.M
— Marty Bisson milo
When you look in the mirror and see your reflection, your eyes are open; when you look in the mirror and see God, your soul is open.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
— Brooke Foss Westcott
The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.
— Carlos Castenada
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the eyes of others, we’re often not who we imagine ourselves to be.
— Gilly Macmillan, What She Knew
Your heavenly eyes are shining like a late night starTo be in heaven, I like to get lost in those eyes forever.
— Debasish Mridha
If believers in God don’t honor the cries and claims of the poor, we don’t honor him, whatever we profess, because we hide his beauty from the eyes of the world. When we pour ourselves out for the poor—that gets the world’s notice.
— Timothy J. Keller, Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just
Despite the way she rallied, the haunted look in her eyes was enough to break him, as lost and lonely as an abandoned child’s.
— Katherine McIntyre, Waking for Winter
When you close your eyes and you feel the color, that is when you know that love has entered your heart.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.
— Bill Cosby
I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.
— Elizabeth Berg, The Pull of The Moon
The stars, like the hollow eyes of a god forgotten, marry the sadness of the exhausted hour and inspire a little chaos, a little gentleness, to those below. I look up at the sky and see everything I’ve ever lost, waiting for me.
— Marlen Komar, Ugly People Beautiful Hearts
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
— Oswald Chambers
I worry there is something broken in our generation, there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.
— Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild: Poems
…My eyes were wet, tears waiting to drop from my eyes and heart started to sob. The words from Jiya pushed me on my back foot…”Source: ‘The Unpredictable Heart – You may be a Victim
— MoKSh, The Unpredictable Heart: You May Be a Victim
Language dazzles and deceives because it is masked by faces, because we see it emerging from the lips, because lips please and eyes beguile. But words on paper, black on white, reveal the naked soul.
— Guy de Maupassant, Alien Hearts
A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul -His dancing breaks beyond the mind’s control.
— Farid ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds
If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
— Ben Stein
What was that you gave me to eat?” Winter panicked.A Filler Crisp, ” Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.
— Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
Forever?”Sam’s lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie.”Longer.
— Maggie Stiefvater
I know you exist not just because your eyes flyand give light to things like an open window
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
I don’t wanna be the joker who makes eyes full of tears in the end
— Ags Orachimaruu
…and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman
— John Fowles
It’s so peaceful. I could go to sleep in here.” His eyes flickered to me once more, and for a dizzying second I wasn’t thinking about sleep or storms but about pressing my lips to his. I gave my head a slight shake and tried to slow my pulse
— J.M. Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
Through pictures, we can imagine and visualize the reflection of the beauties which our eyes can’t see.
— Debasish Mridha
The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
melanin touchesyour eyes like thesun kissed bliss ofmankind
— mimi ton
I want you to let go. Just close your eyes and feel me. Don’t think. Don’t try to control it. All you have to do… is feel.
— Sara Humphreys, Trouble Walks In
Everything built with an art, May your eyes couldn’t see it, but digital eye can.
— Chanaka Satharasinghe.
I have stood in the places where history was made. I have seen with my own eyes the part that men and women of faith have played in these earthshaking events, and I have heard with my own ears their cries for freedom.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves’ eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the unpredictability of the world’s terrors.
— P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.
— Daniel Goleman
Bless you, daugher of man, ” Carter said, his eyes luminous and almost silver now. He leaned down and kissed my forehead. I closed my eyes and caught my breath. His lips were both burning hot and icy cold.
— Richelle Mead, Succubus Revealed
You’ve got something that I don’t have. Innocence. Ur eyes express it, & I can read everything in them”. #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
— Olga Goa
Maybe that’s why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships.
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
My parents also had a tough time recognizing me at first. because my eyes were black and swollen shut and I had two tubes coming out of my head.
— Amy Rankin, Nobody Thought I Could Do It, But I Showed Them, and So Can You!
The vampires took everything from me, but I’m looking into the eyes of one who has the power to give me back a reason to live, who can heal my gaping hole of sorrow.
— J.A. London, Darkness Before Dawn
We all know the true nature of the human soul, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw ourselves looking back.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
In afew hours, she’ll see Anna for herself. She’ll seeher dressed in blood, her hair floating like it’ssuspended in water, eyes black and shining. Andwhen she does, she won’t be able to catch herbreath.
— Kendare Blake, Girl of Nightmares
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship.
— Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
Dad scowls. “Phen.” He says the name like it’s a swear word. “Disgusting, cowardly creatures, the ambivalent. Worse than the fallen, in many ways.” His eyes are so fierce it’s a tad scary. “They have no conviction at all.
— Cynthia Hand, Boundless
They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta’s soul was far darker than even Nero’s.
— Katlyn Charlesworth, While Rome Burned
I’m trying to do what’s right, but I don’t know if there is a such a thing as a right option anymore. Just different kids of wrong.”Breakfast narrowed his eyes at her. “Don’t get too comfortable with that notion.
— Josephine Angelini, Witch’s Pyre
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.
— Meister Eckhart
A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings.
— Debasish Mridha
Sunglasses are the best invention of world.Its hide the eyes which speak more then lips
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari
He didn’t have to say much, It was all in his eyes ~ He didn’t have to do much, It was enough, just to be at his side.
— Nikki Rowe
He dropped back into the couch cushions, stroking the condensation dripping off his glass. “You’re in a pickle.””You want one?” Her eyebrows perked up, though her eyes weren’t tracking well. “I think I have a jar in the fridge.
— Kristin Miller, So I Married a Werewolf
Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There’s still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.
— Cameron Diaz
When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I’ll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.
— Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl
For 1, 300 days of Sarajevo’s drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, … But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear.
— Alijia Izetbegovic
Do not let your intellect steer you away from what your eyes have seen. Neither should you let it deny what your higher powers have perceived.
— Ashavan
He will one day meet his true love… A fellow traveler on the road… Her eyes will be his ocean… In her ocean he will sail forever….
— Kem, Tales of a Chocolate Smuggler: My Life with Dragons
As a Christian, I believe that we are all created in the image of God. I believe that God loves the whole world . . .The life of no human being is cheap in the eyes of God, nor can it be in our own eyes.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A sunrise is a wondrous marvel, but in reality the sun never rises. It is the earth that rotates to face the sun. Life too can be a wondrous marvel, but like the earth, we must turn our eyes toward brighter things.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Tell me what you want, ” he demanded. “Say the words.” Because he needed to hear them. Some primal part of him wanted her to spell it out. Her cheeks were flushed, her eyes heavy-lidded. “Kiss me.” “Where?
— Katie Reus, Love Thy Enemy
At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
— W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
I opened my eyes and watched the water stream past me. I let out some of my air and gazed at the cascade of silver bubbles dancing up to the surface.
— Erica Sehyun Song, Thorns in the Shadow
I was born with my eyes turned inward.
— David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems
Wisdom opens the eyes of love.
— Marieta Maglas
I make my way to her table, seeing her eyes growing wider as I do. Ten or so other girls probably just developed instantaneous crushes on me, because they see Carmel likes me. Or so the sociologist in my brain says.
— Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood
I was eyes to the blind and feet was I to the lame.
— Bible
Lifting his head to gently kiss her lips, he whispered, “I trust you.” Then he covered his own eyes with her satin mask.
— Aleatha Romig, Convicted
Her blue eyes glowed headlight red into my leafy greens. Those eyes were freaky.
— Jazz Feylynn, Colorado State of Mind
To me, he is art, poetry for the eyes and heart. He is the most terrifyingly beautiful guy I have ever seen. And his scars have to tell a story…
— Jessica Sorensen, Unbeautiful
The thought of being with Shay Wilder makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a butter knife
— Lisa McMann, Fade
And Death it calls as the stone crow breaks. Streaks of blood malform its face.Death becomes its withered eyes and the shadows whisper, “Lies.” Excerpt from “Lies
— Angela B. Chrysler
Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.
— Richard Bach
You hold one feather tightly in your hand, close your eyes and concentrate. The location of the other feather will appear in your mind and the magic will take you there.
— Louise Courey Nadeau, Magelica’s Voyage
Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
— Eberhard Arnold
I close my eyes and melt in its embrace, basking in the sweetest balm of forgiveness: that for which one need not even ask.
— Leslie Cannold, The Book Of Rachael
Our eyes are closed, but even without seeing, they’re only for each other.
— A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers
Children who are ill, in their innocence and plight, teach adults many lessons, and one of those lessons is that ‘Life must go on. Face it. Live it. Enjoy it. Despite all the odds.’ That is bravery, in the eyes of a sick child.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
Hayden McGregor glanced with contempt at the pitch-black road. “I do not fear the darkness. It fears me.” He dismissed the approaching gloom with a narrowed stare. His steel gray eyes holding it back with a contemptuous regard.
— Grace Willows, Not On My Watch
He pulled off the condom brusquely, wiped the head on my cheek, and threw it in the gutter. My humiliation was scorching hot. I couldn’t help touching myself yet another time. His eyes called me ‘slut’ as I came again.
— kimber nilsson
My age makes him nervous and shamey, cause his eyes keep heading southwards and then back up, guilty. I can tell I can make his eyes swirl and that’s just about all I want to do.
— Andrea Portes, Hick
To see persons looking with children’s eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience…
— Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
— Jean Toomer
Exactly what good are our eyes if they are not willing to see what’s right before us?
— Mark W. Boyer
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
She kept her head high, even as her eyes stung, even as panic filled her vision with warnings and precautions.It was not her fault he had liked her.It was not her fault she was cyborg. She would not apologize.
— Marissa Meyer, Cinder
If the past was what we were meant to see…then behind, not in front, our eyes would be.
— RVM
Kitten, your hands are heaven and your eyes are my home.
— Jeaniene Frost, This Side of the Grave
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
— Rumi
With you, it’s different. I can see the rest of my life before my eyes and that scares me a little. Men don’t tame my wild heart but somehow I crossed your path and have never been the same since.
— Nikki Rowe
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
— George W. Russell
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!
— Don Marquis
Ranger locked eyes with me. “Please, ” he said.Tank and Hal were goggle-eyed. They weren’t used to “please.” I wasn’t used to it either. But I liked it. Okay, ” I said. “Be careful. He’s insane.
— Janet Evanovich
Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus’s being ridden by a sea horse……..
— Steve Merrick
You must mind and not lower the Church in people’s eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
— George Eliot, Adam Bede
Every kid’s afraid of that right? That someday you’ll be left in a corner, like a toy, staring with button eyes and a broken heart.
— Lili St. Crow
Your exuberance, passion, mesmerizing voice, animated actions, and eyes full of dreamscaptured my attentionso completely, that I didn’t feel the bitter taste of coffee
— Vijaya Gowrisankar
Pure and soft, the melody is entrancing. Haunting. I’m glued to my seat, waiting, hoping for the next enthralling sound. I’d close my eyes if I weren’t afraid I’d miss a second of his performance.
— Cassie Graham, Unable to Resist
If you need inspiration, look into the eyes of people as you walk by them. They are looking for a hero; that person may be you.
— Robert J. Braathe
Look through the eyes of your highest self. What do you see?
— A.D. Posey
It was love. It was lust. It was just between us. The passion, the desire, the fire. The way we held on in so little time and his eyes when he saw me for the first time.
— Dominic Riccitello
Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward.
— Terry Tempest Williams, Pieces of White Shell
Celine snorted. “Never have I ever had a thing for blondes, ” she said. And then, her eyes on Sloane, she shot our statistician a dazzling smile and lowered her own finger —meaning that she did have a thing for blondes.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood
When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn’t giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which you’re growing, but was to conceal the root from the eyes of people that will dare to uproot it.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
All the couples therapy and communication seminars in the world won’t save you if you aren’t prepared to close your eyes and hug the mainmast through a storm.
— Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give
But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
— Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
It’s strange to see people you don’t know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
The only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be a part of it. To keep your enemies close.
— C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark
One day when I ventured into the garden to regard its bloom, My eyes beheld on a bower a withered rose.When I inquired what had caused the blight, “My lips for a moment opened in a smile in this garden, ” it replied.
— Musharraf Ali Farooqi, The Adventures of Amir Hamza
The clown’s eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. “But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.
— Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire
The fire and passion in a militiaman’s eyes has not been extinguished; the brightness and eagerness remain. I want to be around such men, for they are the only ones worth knowing.
— Mike Klepper
Anna’s eyes soften, and the stubborn tears begin to recede. The way she stands, the way she breathes, I know she wants to come closer. New knowledge fills up the air between us and neither of us wants to breathe it in.
— Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood
He swallowed hard and looked deep into my eyes so intensely, I tried hard not to look away. I didn’t want him to see how mildly scared of him I was. I touched the hand in his lap and he answered.
— Mercy Cortez, Never Ever After
Your feet may be small, but travel much. Your hands may be little, but conquer much. Your eyes may be tiny, but perceive much. Your ears may be modest, but heed much.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Is it weird that I think it’s hot when you boss me around?” Her gaze snapped up to his, her blue eyes darkening with unmistakable hunger…. “I can take bossing you around to a whole other level if you’d like, ” she murmured.
— Katie Reus, A Covert Affair
Father Break my heart for what breaks yoursGive me open hands and open doorsPut your light in my eyes and let me seeThat my own little world is not about me
— Matthew West
Emmerich’s heart in his throat, he could only stare down at Monica, who looked up at him with glassy eyes as she shivered with pain and choked on blood.
— Suzanna J. Linton, Clara
And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.
— Gary Paulsen, Hatchet
It is easier to wipe a thousand tears from your eyes than to wipe a single tear from your soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The media made the masses to find not-so-skinny women appear not-so-beautiful … in the eyes of the remote holder.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
If you direct your whole thought to work itself none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
— Quintilian
A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.
— Amit Kalantri
Whatever we decide we don’t want in life (whether it’s dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.
— Danielle Steel, Pure Joy: The Dogs We Love
You can walk away and say “We don’t need this.” but something in your eyes says “We can beat this.
— Taylor Swift
Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squatter camp.Matsime Simon Mohapi
— Matsime Simon Mohapi, Poverty in the Land of Riches – South Africa
Miranda doesn’t dream, she simply rests. When Miranda’s eyes are at ease, her mind is at peace.
— Ingeborg Bachmann, Simultan: Erzählungen
I am awake and witness to the beauty that resides behind you’re soulful eyes of intent. Become my impaler.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning
— Carl Sandburg
Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.
— Shannon L. Alder
Miracles… seem to me to rest not so much upon… healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.
— Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
— Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing us, nonetheless.
— Charlaine Harris, Club Dead
My heart starts to pound as he gets closer and closer to the stands, never taking his eyes off me.
— Collette West, Night Games
Love yourself enough to open your eyes, and open your eyes enough to love yourself.
— Jay Woodman
Some things take so longBut how do I explainWhen not too many peopleCan see we’re all the sameAnd because of all their tearsYour eyes can’t hope to seeThe beauty that surrounds themNow, isn’t it a pity
— George Harrison
Why bother? Maybe the world’s not worth saving.” She knew he meant it, too. Those lifeless eyes spoke volumes.
— Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
— Matthew 6:22-23, NIV
There is always stardust in my eyes when I look at you, my love.
— Ellen Read, The Dragon Sleeps
What haunts me most about her eyes is the pain I put in them… In the corner of my dark soul Her passion is dark like a kohl She is giving new meaning to these feelings She is complete she is whole.
— Dinesh Kumar Biran
(When)When you call me nugget.When you take pictures of me.When you dance.When you complement me.When you laugh.When your eyes squint as you smile.When we make love when we’re sick.I fall more in love with you.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading
In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible to say, “This is land, ” and point, and “This is sky, ” and point, but the eyes can’t discover the dividing line.
— Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox
Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of such glorious confusion.
— David Nicholls
I couldn’t shake Zander’s beady red eyes or the noise of his pounding wings behind us. His hot breath and foul stench reached for us, but couldn’t catch us as we soared above liquid green fields in the Realm Beyond.
— Dianne Bright, Soul Reader
Sometimes one really need to have a spiritual eyes and mind, to be able to see and understand somethings
— Nurudeen Ushawu
When words remain unspoken and emotions are left unexpressed, just a glint in the eyes from otherness can inflame the mind and rouse a shower of empathy. (“Only needed a light “)
— Erik Pevernagie
The secret to being unafraid of the darkness is to challenge the darkness to fear you, to raise your eyes sharp to those few souls who stagger by, daring them to believe that you are not, in fact, more frightening than they are.
— Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
His eyes are piercing and intense, the stare they give me brimming with threat and interest, folding thick arms over a broad chest, rippling the muscles in his forearms and etching the tattoos down his arms into stark highlight.
— Poppet, Ryan
He looked down at the pillow that had fallen to the floor at his feet. “Are you seriously beginning a fight you cannot possibly win, druid?” he asked, his Gwarda green eyes deepening in color from the challenge.”-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance
— Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance
He sighed and then focused his eyes right on me. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world except for those eyes.”I want to kiss you, Rose, ” he said softly. “And I want you to want me too.
— Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
don’t believe to your eyes believe to your actions
— Alessandro Malaguti
In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren’t so good.
— Jack Harbaugh
Other people’s eyes are limitless and that’s what scares me.
— Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey
When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I’m still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing’s changed.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
I shut my eyes in order to see.
— Paul Gauguin
If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
If she had looked into his eyes at that very moment she would have seen the inferno that she had thrown him into.
— Mirella Muffarotto, Soccer Sweetheart
If your eyes and mind can SEE IT, the body does not require external motivation to get motivated.
— Harrish Sairaman
He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Don’t be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.
— Graham Speechley
To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights
It was so dark it was like noting was there in the room but us. Only the nothing was actually something because it filled my eyes and lungs and it sat on my shoulders.
— Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts
Their eyes locked.They could see into each other’s souls. This was why she had been born.
— Marion Croslydon, Oxford Whispers
Open your eyes and breathe deeply. Wisdom is in the air.
— Marty Rubin
Her eyes travel down to where he’s gripping the handle of her suitcase. “What’re you doing?” she asks, blinking at him.”You looked like you needed some help.”Hadley just stares at him.”And this way it’s perfectly legal, ” he adds with a grin.
— Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Her jaw was firmly set, but her lips… her full, perfect lips were slightly parted in an expression that matched the vulnerability in her eyes -frightened yet determined. His heart skippeed a beat, and he swallowed the lump in his throat.
— Melanie Dickerson, A Spy’s Devotion
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
— George William Russell
See mirror, every time you will miss me and look deeper into your eyes till you will find me.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
When our eyes made contact it was like being slapped, I just wanted to recoil
— Kate le Vann, Things I Know About Love
The eyes were of a color which he could never decide on, afterwards when he told the story he used to say they were the color of everything in Spring.
— John Buchan, Huntingtower
These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-Jacala’s mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.
— Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books
There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.
— E.D.E.N. Southworth, Capitola’s Peril
Matty just rolled his eyes and walked over to his older brother. “Why is it when everyone thinks they’re on their death bed, they suddenly find Jesus?”Jayne shrugged and replied, “Because that’s where he likes to hang out?
— Nonjon
I can’t help it. I’m just a big gasbag. I still got leftover barbeque gas.” She squeezed her eyes shut tight and did a full minute-long far. “Excuse me, ” she said.
— Janet Evanovich
My breath catches in my throat as a chill makes me shiver, leaving gooseflesh in its wake. My eyes latch on to his, pleading with him to kiss me.
— Heather M. Orgeron, Boomerangers
The mountain of despair has dwindled, and the stone of hope has size and shape, and can be fondled by the eyes and by the hand. But freedom has always been an elusive tease, and in the very act of grabbing for it one can become shackled.
— Alice Walker
I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she’s at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.
— David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
— Henry David Thoreau
People only keep their eyes open out of habit. And, nothing more.
— S.D. Lawendowski, Snapped
Unhappiness slowly creeps up on you, like a shape-shifting monster waiting in the darkness of your hallway, his bulging eyes watching your every move. The breath on his slimy tongue makes the hairs on your neck stand up.
— Kate Rockland, Falling Is Like This
I love you, ” I whispered hoarsely. “You’re my favourite person.” The tears blurred in my eyes again. “And if you ever tell anyone I cried during this moment I will withhold sex for a year.
— Samantha Young, Castle Hill
You haven’t seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.~Tanela Hicks
— Tanela Hicks
I’m into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.
— Giada De Laurentiis
Many churches have their eyes on the culture instead of on Christ. Many pastors preach on common unity instead of calling the community to repent.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
You don’t have to close your eyes or even look up to find an answer you just have to want an answer to come, and then ask.
— Brent M. Jones
I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Are you in love with him?’She kept her lips tightly closed as if holding something back.‘Are you in love with me?’She tried to answer but nothing came out. She lowered her eyes to the floor.
— Tan Redding, A Banquet Of Crumbs
I remember the way his eyes pinned my body against the backdrop of Paris as if I was some rare butterfly pinned to an exhibit box.
— Rebecca Paula, Everly After
Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son’s bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don’t feel like I’m depressed anymore. There’s nothing to be depressed about when you’ve got that.
— Corey Feldman
If you kiss me and then leave again to go write anothertwangy song, ” she said, eyes closed, lips barely moving, “I swear to God, I will snap that guitar in half and feed it to you for breakfast.”“You use the prettiest words.
— Jamie Farrell, Matched
Determined eyes see less sleep; a focused mind has less time for idleness. Hearts filled with tenacity don’t just give up. When you are at the battlefield, you do all things with a different energy!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
For she had eyes and chose me.
— William Shakespeare, Othello
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
— Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
He tried to recall the look of her eyes the day they first met. He closed his eyes and concentrated, but as he envisioned Kalila’s car passing by, he couldn’t decide if it was a memory or a dream.
— Christian F. Burton, Energy Dependence Day
And I fear that my place gets taken by some other one, very lucky and not too shy, who flirts with your eyes while I’m the one who’s crazy about them.
— Nizar Qabbani
The moment when you think that you are the loneliest person in the world, you close your eyes and feel , it is much better this way.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.
— Ray Bradbury, The October Country
He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.
— A.K. Kuykendall, The Possession
his eyes are swords from far was sparkling sharpnesson my body and soul
— litymunshi
Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile.
— Chloe Thurlow, The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena
I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the light in the darkness.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
The grip of her eyes is so hard that he can barely breathe. She entices him to crash into her and explore her depths. But he is already soaked in different waters.
— Faraaz Kazi, More Than Just Friends
I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
She blinked her eyes open, her lips parted and cheeks flushed, looking every bit like a goddess before him. And if he were a better man, he wouldn’t have been able to taint such purity. But he wasn’t a better man, and there was no turning back now.
— A. Zavarelli, King’s Kitten
Turn a blind eye on logic and sense, for eyes see facts and minds make mess; mostly that’s why we mistake for something less, all of the shadows of those who conspire. But where there is smoke, near is a fire.
— Unknown
Close your eyes and you will see your dreams, open them and you will see obstacles.
— Gavriil Stiharul
Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.
— Henry James
But there was something in his eyes at times that I would almost swear said something more. Some deeper sort of regard.
— Emma Mills, First & Then
Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
— John Carmack
Darling, even raindrops try to wipe my teardrops but your thoughts haul out more tears from my liquid eyes and then teardrops replace raindrops…
— Abhishek Rath
I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky.
— Jandy Nelson
It is necessary to keep one’s compass in one’s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
Rose pivoted. “Alainn, can I ask you something about ethics?” Alainn nodded, slowly. “Sure.” Rose’s inhuman eyes met hers, and she asked, “Would you die to save a million people?
— Rita Stradling, Ensnared
But time and time again, I saw the change in their eyes once they’d conquered me. Dehumanization always follows penetration.
— Maggie Georgiana Young
Open your eyes and see how many gifts there are to unwrap. Notice the presence of your presents. It’s not your life that is disappointing: it’s your mind.
— Gregg Krech, Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection
Now Arthur, if humans could learn to gaze with their eyes or use their special sight, they would realize there is more to seeing than just what is in front of them!” Den the Wise Oak Tree, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure
— Chris DiSano Davenport, See the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure
I do, ” Drew admitted, his eyes devouring my body appreciatively. “But with you…I want so much more, Summer. So much more than you’re willing to give me.” He paused, “Every single touch, every single look you give me, I cherish.
— Kailin Gow, Perfect Summer
It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
— Sir Walter Scott
Everything about her always seemed to dance. Her lips as she spoke, her eyes as she laughed, even her hands as she made the cup of coffee I just ordered.
— Holli True, Reckless
Only a few hairline fractures around his eyes and lips spoke of the torment he’d been through. I wanted to smooth those lines away, and wished it was that easy to erase the scars of our past.” ~ Muse, Drowning In The Dark #4 The Veil Series.
— Pippa DaCosta, Drowning In The Dark
There were no fear of death in children’s eyes because they had seen hanging, stoning to death and chopping heads in playgrounds and parks.
— M.F. Moonzajer
She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.
— Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
Their eyes are precisely similar, and they are those of Catherine Earnshaw.
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Its quietness was the quietness of strength. And the eyes were those of one who had walked through many a dark valley without flinching.
— Madeleine Brent, Stranger at Wildings
I will once again keep my eyes open to the changes so that I won’t miss even a single spec of chance. Life is possible, believe it, LIFE’S POSSIBLE!
— Mphezulu Xetho Dainamyk
We don’t marry women, he thought; we marry angels, and in this moment or two of the marriage act, the scales fall from our eyes and we see them as they really are, perhaps never to glimpse it again.How lovely she is, how unearthly lovely.
— Cornell Woolrich, Fright
Stay close 2 those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and those eyes sparkle wiz happiness is contagious and will always manage 2 find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation 4 the mistake made.” me!! 😉
— Paulo Coelho
Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
It was once said that to hide something from prying eyes you must place it where people can see it.
— Micheal Rivers, Verliege
You can’t drink ‘English afternoon tea’ in the morning, ” the barista said to her, his eyes blazing like shards of crystal meth about to ignite. “Do you want to be responsible for fucking up the universe?
— Christa Carmen, The Book of the Macabre
My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do.
— Craig Stone, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness
Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way
— Pablo Neruda, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada; Cien sonetos de amor
-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.
— Patti Smith, M Train
(…) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
— Jules Verne
It’s the butterflies in our bellies, and the lightening in our eyes that tells me this all makes so much fucking sense.
— LeAnne Mechelle, Write like no one is reading 2
Because if I fell any deeper for the way his eyes crinkled with his smile or his habit of tapping on his nose to emphasize a point, my ship would be sunk.
— Katherine McIntyre, By the Sea
Life is brighter than we think and better as we are. We just need to open our eyes and follow our heart.” ― Nina Hrusa
— Nina Hrusa
Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually wracked with pain.
— Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me – nothing anywhere but Grace and me – she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
But hear thee, Gratiano:Thou art too wild, too rude, and bold of voice – Parts that become thee happily enough, And in such eyes as ours appear no faults, But where thou art not known, why, there they show Something too liberal.
— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Time is zero, no human made Calender’s, colour of which the eyes could fail to identify, the taste of which the tongue could derail, the aroma of which the breathing becomes invalid when we are lost in the Kingdomof Lord, Supreme Power.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
The sun was shining bright The moon is crying tonight I miss you I miss your eyes tonight ……………
— Sami Abouzid
When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.
— John C. Maxwell
If I remove your eyes or make you in such way that to don’t see… in reality you don’t see the evil… you don’t see me… so do whatever I don’t give a fuck… that’s wonderful… I like to play games… so run!… and welcome home!?
— Deyth Banger
Sometimes dreaming is opening your eyes and looking at the world around you.
— Auliq-Ice
What happens when you shut your eyes? The images you have been accustomed to look at suddenly disappear. See through the images by closing your eyes and opening your heart.
— J.R. Rim
Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I’m heavy, like there’s to much gravity on my heart.
— Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?”Bob’s eyes darted nervously. “I’d . . . prefer not to. I’d really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.
— Jim Butcher, Ghost Story
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
— Thomas Merton, The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals
Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in bed.
— Malak El Halabi
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you’re the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes on you. Do I believe in love at first sight? But of course! Love cannot be tamed nor bridled by things like time, circumstance, and logic!
— C. JoyBell C.
Change will force you to step off the path, to venture from the nest, to close your eyes and dive right in, knowing that the greatest opportunities in life are found in the sink or swim, do or die moments.
— Stella Payton
My words shall open the portal to thee.My words shall reveal for thy eyes to see.My words shall forewarn what is yet to be. To find the way you must follow your heart, Any other path shall tear us apart. From Eleventh Elementum
— J.L. Bond
They can’t tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one’s feet is real in a way reading with one’s eyes alone is not.
— Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.
— Anthony Liccione
Want? Yes, she whispered, her eyes sliding closed. Yes I want to keep you more than I want to breathe.
— Skye Jordan, Reckless
She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.
— Gwendoline Riley
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
It is a melancholy fact which exponents of democracy must face that, while all men may be on a level in the eyes of the State, they will continue in fact to be preposterously unequal.
— John Buchan, John MacNab
I gulped, mesmerized by his hypnotic eyes and charming, spearmint smile, and uttered something intelligent like, “Uh, huh.” ~ from Dragon Flight
— J. Keller Ford, One More Day
Open you eyes to the world around you.. Block out the screams of pessimism.. Release your inhibitions!
— Nike Thaddeus
Behind this smile in my faceLies the dark shadow of emptinessHiding from your eyes within my gazeConcealed with sham happiness.
— Alexia Chase
You’re my Star, a stargazer too, and I wish that I were Heaven, with a billion eyes to look at you!
— Plato
Light wears out the eyes but does not wear out the soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
— Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.
— William Gibson, Neuromancer
Black hair spilling, blue eyes piercing. Enchanted by the lies that he was singing.
— Sara Secora
Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can’t see it.
— Shannon L. Alder
The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
— Dan Coats
My eyes were stinging, my body shaking, and my heart seemed to be just aching deep in my chest. (…)I should have let myself smash down the rocks. It would have hurt a whole lot less
— Keri Arthur, Embraced by Darkness
I like you; your eyes are full of language.”[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
— Anne Sexton
Gwydion stood as a wolf at bay, his green eyes glittering, his teeth bared.
— Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three
Bravery is not the absence of fear, but rather, it is the decision to look fear in the eyes and press on regardless
— Luke Edison
A Woman Who loves you and really needs you in her life will always keep her eyes on you and always will make sure to keep you close to her not to ever let go. If she ever let you go. She never loved you. She was just killing her time
— Sami Abouzid
Adolescence impelled her eyes to stay at an even keel, to deal with the ground before flickering to the heavens. Night became not dotted with fairy clouds of celestial brilliance, but simply the time when the sun was out of sight.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
Don’t you worry, darlin’, ” he says, his intensely blue eyes full of mischief. “I like surprises
— Lisa Daily, Single-Minded
My eyes hurt… but there is something more… I can’t stop listening to horror…. now I am going to be in darkkkk.
— Deyth Banger
Let us see each other not through the eyes but through the heart and feel the joy of love.
— Debasish Mridha
If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward’s in trouble ’cause no one is home.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Obsidian Butterfly
Thy eyes hold countless stars yet to be discovered.
— Avijeet Das
Life has taught me to release my ears from hearing negativity, destructive remarks, false rumors and stupid ways. I learn to open my eyes and my mind to think ahead of my life, to learn more of who I am.
— Auliq Ice
She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)
— Jim Fusilli
You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees bottomless pit in yours.
— Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
— Babe Ruth
His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It’s wrong, lack of cream.
— Gail Carriger, Blameless
Eventually, she looked up, her eyes completely void of emotions. “You are merely a diversion. You mean nothing to me.” She walked past him and out of the room. She left him, a fish gasping amongst the clouds, falling back to earth.
— Michelle Frost, Wisdoms of the Light
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
— Patrick Henry
The dreams you have that may meet mockeries from the lips of negative people will yield the success that will squeeze tears from their eyes later! Dare to resist every negative criticism and persist to make it happen!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Kope!” the other guy yeled. “What the frick?! You got some cheetah blood in you or what?”“Seriously!” insisted Blake. “How did you run so fast?”“I am African.” Without taking his eyes from mine, Kopano eased himself off me, and I sat up.
— Wendy Higgins
You can discover your calling through the eyes of others
— Sunday Adelaja
I guess you’ve got a spice of temper, ” commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. “It goes with hair like yours, I reckon
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
Poor are those who have eyes but cannot see… ☥
— Luis Marques, Kemet – The Year of Revelation
Do you want to hear it or not? You have to keep it a secret.“ I would pluck out my own eyes with a fork before I would give away your secrets, “ Simon said, then looked anxious. “ Wait a second. Do you think that„s likely to be required?
— Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
I can only be me not thee, as far as the eyes can see!
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
I couldn’t take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.
— Laura Whitcomb, A Certain Slant of Light
The angels that dry our eyes bear the form and the features of all we have said and thought—above all, of what we have done, prior to the hour of misfortune.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom And Destiny
If you are not pleased with what you see with your eyes, close your eyes and learn to see from your heart, this is where the true beauty lies.
— Fabulous Godwin
seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
— Alfred Adler
You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.
— Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep
Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness…
— Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Happiness lies even in little tiny butterflies. You just have to cpen up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand. Her radiant smile made my pen write words in the air. Her beautiful soul made my typewriter type poems for eternity. I am no writer.
— Avijeet Das
There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.
— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
My eyes are open and I’m not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside.
— David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
Her eyes met his, but she looked quickly away; entangling gazes with Will was confusing at best, dizzying at worst.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
If you don’t hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
— Arthur Brisbane
Life is not a maze where you have your eyes on the gaps, life is a beautiful journey, stop looking for the gaps.
— Malti Bhojwani
Time moves on for us, for you it stands still. You will be forever ageless as we grow old, your smile will never wrinkle, nor will that shine in your eyes fade..
— Kendal Rob
See it (your situations) with your eyes but direct it to God
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. … Harry didn’t say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.
— Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.
— Katie Grissom
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
— William Gibson, Count Zero
Your eyes reflect the beauty which no one can see except that special person whose soul is lost in your love.
— Debasish Mridha
So close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my sleep.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Keep your eyes on the prize for you cant hit an unseen target but don’t forget to pay the price
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.
— NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names
Though my eyes cannot see beyond what I can see, I can see beyond what I cannot see
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
When you are brave enough to see me and accept me at my most basic, uninspired, unremarkable self – indeed, embrace my ordinariness – then, and only then, will you develop eyes to see the extraordinary splendor of my heart.
— LaShawnda Jones
Cupping a cheek in each hand, he lifted her back up to his desk and pressed his hips hard into hers. Her eyes were worried. “But people keep coming—” “The next person to come is going to be you, ” he said.
— Jill Shalvis, My Kind of Wonderful
Chris. What do you want, child?”I sighed and walked another three steps forward. I stared into his eyes and spoke the one word that terrified him, “Democracy.
— Yanan Melo, Naaalala Niyo Ba Ang Noli Me Tangere?
His eyes are so intense I want to look away . . . or never look away, I can’t decide.
— Kasie West, The Distance Between Us
A path toward Truth is darkness; a journey through the woods, at night, blindfolded. Find ‘Self’ & you can find Light with eyes closed.
— Ace Antonio Hall
We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything.
— John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
There was a shepherd the other day up at Findon Fair who had come from the east by Lewes with sheep, and who had in his eyes that reminiscence of horizons which makes the eyes of shepherds and of mountaineers different from the eyes of other men.
— Hilaire Belloc
You just gotta tell her, man, ’ I said. ‘You just gotta say, “Angela, I really like you, but there’s something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we’ll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas.
— John Green, Paper Towns
I think you have bits of Primord in your hair…And you look …bloody…You look a mess, Halíka…But you are still the most beautiful woman I have ever laid my eyes on.
— Alexandra May, The Battle for Arcanon Major
McAllister looked up into her face, his eyes blazing with anger. At last, his composure cracked.‘That’s right, ’ he shouted back. ‘My word against – whose? Yours? You were dead, remember? No, of course you don’t remember. You were dead!
— Nigel Holloway, Second Death
It was the kind of smile that no one further than ten inches from her face would perceive. Her expression was so lightly cast to my eyes that had it been a snowflake on my lashes it would have melted away with an accidental blink.
— Zach Lichtmann, Dynamo
I fell in love with the expression in his eyes when he looked at me.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears.
— Octavio Paz
One of my greatest obsessions is the lights of a city. Through my eyes there is nothing so delicious and rich and lovely.
— K.B. Ezzell, Elysium
There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.
— Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
Spirituality is about developing the inner sights by opening the third eye and the eyes of the heart.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Let your instincts guide you through life, and your eyes see the way through.
— Tania Gardana
We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own.
— Whipplesnaith
The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground
— Theodore Roosevelt
Women are beautiful because the world sees with the eyes of men and us men are still influencing the preferences of humanity.
— Hockson Floin
The guys can’t take their eyes off Colleen… one of them… probably sees her just like I do, she’s the gatekeeper to another world.
— Ron Koertge, Now Playing: Stoner & Spaz II
Student food.” His eyes went to the tomato on the sill. “Whatever’s in the refrigerator over pasta.
— Kim Harrison, Dead Witch Walking
The more time you can put between you and your manuscript, the more fresh your eyes become and the more mistakes you’ll catch.
— Dan Alatorre
Try taking five minutes for meditation. Close your eyes and in your mind picture Jesus. Watch Him turn, look at you and hear Him…
— Kyle Idleman, Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus
The call of distinction cannot be heard by the average, neither can the vision of distinction be seen by the eyes of the mediocre.
— Onyi Anyado
I trust people with my eyes and ears wide open.
— Amit Abraham
My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. — Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)
— Jeanette Lynes, Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets
When darkness falls and eyes stay shutA chain of voices opens up.Let wax not wane give breath to death.p.s. Shhh” -Yvonne Woon(Dead Beautiful)
— Yvonne Woon
Women do come up to me, and they tell me what they think! I’ve gotten great compliments on my eyes and my smile. But I don’t see myself as sexy.
— Jesse L. Martin
Sometimes, one needs another pair of eyes to see things clearly.
— Aguidon
For years I was deathly afraid of my own weaknesses, but when I closed my eyes and let myself be vulnerable to them it allowed miracles to take place. Miracles that were only alive when I accessed my BLIND faith.
— Bethany Brookbank, Write like no one is reading
Ah! Your eyes are lighting the moon with the silvery lights of love.
— Debasish Mridha
I am not sure I can.””Become sure, ” said the cat, his eyes flashing green in the firelight. “Once you leap on a boar’s back, you can’t sheath your claws.
— Erin Bow, Plain Kate
I heard your whispered fantasies so clear Softly told in my earI opened my eyes you weren’t thereSo real my dream, I was so awareBut we’ll meet again so certainlyIn our whispered fantasy
— Astrid Brown, Whispered Fantasies
I know not what it is about you that makes me go crazy but I do know that the radiance in your eyes is more dazzling than that in all the diamonds of this world!
— Avijeet Das
Seenu rang the gong, and the eyes shut themselves in silence, and the brahmin heart and the weaver heart and pariah heart seemed to beat the one beat of Siva dancing
— Raja Rao, Kanthapura: Indian Novel
When you look into the eyes of an animal you’ve rescued, you can’t help but fall in love.
— Paul Shaffer
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand seeking water.
— Tamara Rose Blodgett, Death Screams
No man can see himself unless he borrows the eyes of a friend
— Colin Higgins, Harold and Maude
As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business. I am a storyteller. Daydreaming is the best part of my job.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars.
— Rivera Sun, Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars – a story of our times –
I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.
— Edgar Allan Poe, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.
— Martin Buber
We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts.
— Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
The Lies, are so many, that eyes are getting blind.
— VicDo
His eyes forward didn’t deviate from the off-road trail, his chiseled jaw gripped shut during the ride. He didn’t release any sound of explanation until we arrived.
— Jazz Feylynn, Colorado State of Mind
Memories are strange things. Without being something I can hold in my hand, they wield a beguiling power over me. Like a mirage in the noontime heat of summer they dance before my inner eyes and beckon me to find water where there is no water.
— Joy Sikorski
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel
— Peter Nivio Zarlenga
She looked at me again, and the sweet and shy Nicole disappeared. Her eyes b
— Kelley Armstrong, The Calling
He threw his hands to his eyes and hissed. Like the hiss of incinerating ashes. ‘What is this bright, orange orb in the sky that mocks me with its warmth?
— Jesikah Sundin, Transitions: Novella Collection
You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy, ” said Vikus.”Oh, I see, ” said Gregor. “So, when’s he coming?”Vikus fixed his eyes on Gregor. “I believe he is already here.
— Suzanne Collins, Gregor the Overlander
The look in Marlee’s eyes was triumphant, and the smile hiding behind her cup of tea said, ‘Gotcha’!
— Kiera Cass, The Elite
In the stillness, our eyes do all the silent talking. Our chests move with heavy breathing and desire pours out through our pores. It’s unmistakable.
— Yara Greathouse, Dismantled
Go through life with your eyes wide open and do not react to failures with a burst of negative emotions
— Sunday Adelaja
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes Being vex’d a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
— William Shakespeare
To be blind momentarily when light hits your eyes is better than to be blind permanently when darkness hits your soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowdAnd new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most:Time’s bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lostFor all eyes but these eyes.
— W.B. Yeats
I’d become an uncertain creature in her mind, and I found I liked it; she couldn’t fathom what else I might be doing when her eyes weren’t on me.
— Anna Freeman, The Fair Fight
Mark you, no Krishna can clear your eyes and make you look with a broader vision upon life in your march upward and onward, until the Self within you morphs into Krishna – until the Self morphs into Buddha – until the Self turns into Christ.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Krishna Cancer
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
I felt like I was seeing Shannon through a new lens, undistracted by Jennifer’s nuclear glow. I could see how pretty she really was, how kind her eyes were.
— Kenneth Oppel, Half Brother
Dave walked closer to me, his dark eyes combing my every move. “Do you always hold your guitar like that?”I dropped my pick. “Do you always shop at Hot Topic?
— Tara Kelly, Amplified
Look into my eyes andYou’ll see my mind.A tranquil city, That rebuilt itself and left the past behind.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, This Is My Life
Never be afraid to speak your mind on relevant issues; good leaders stand for relevance and they are never afraid to face the facts head on. Bad leaders see the problems, close their eyes and do something else!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
What the wise see eyes closed is greater than what the ignorant see both eyes open.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Words are useless. Use your eyes to say a million things.
— Gabriella Jording
And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them for a Day when eyes will stare [in horror].
— Quran 14 42
I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can’t take your eyes off of because everything they are doing – even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye – it’s just interesting.
— Sara Paxton
If you don’t find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don’t want to ruin the evening.
— Shannon L. Alder
There’s a difference between the ‘art’ of writing and the ‘craft’ of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, but craft is objective. There is a right way and a wrong way to craft.
— Gerard de Marigny, Rescue From Sana’a
Eyes can’t speak …but some people can understand what eyes want to speak!!!
— Neeky Albert
Everyone has beautiful eyes but they often see ugliness not the beauty of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Purrrrrrrr” Elizabeth kneaded Vlad’s pecs. “I hear a Kitty!” Vlad’s eyes sprung open. There was a moment of hurt, of sad. There was no kitty. “You’re teasing me!” — Bats
— Fred Barnett
We are the eyes in the darkness
— Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar – Vesnici oluje
The look in his eyes reminded me of myself. We were both alone in a new environment, trapped by our circumstances, and we both needed to grow up much faster than planned. Who knew that once I’d have something common with a deer.
— A.B. Whelan, Valley of Darkness Part 1 & Part 2
It is said that ‘Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder’. I say, ‘Perfection lies in the heart of the receiver.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
I have gazed so much on beautythat my eyes overflow with it.
— Constantinos P. Cavafis, Remember, Body…
Lend your ears to the deaf, your eyes to the blind, your hands to the weak, your tongue to the mute, your mind to the perplexed, and your heart to the weary.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Across the seat our eyes are holding hands.
— Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe
Every touch of you on my skin has burnt and etched your name on my soul. Whenever I close my eyes and try to feel myself, all I can hear is constant echoes of your name in my head, and all I can feel is the constant longing for the darkness.
— Akshay Vasu
If she wanted you, her eyes would buy you out – and you won’t even know it. Shewas three parts devil, and two parts human; and what remained – unchainedspirit.
— Prashant Chopra, The Eyes that drowned Uyuni
We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
She says his eyes address her like the silence of the snow.
— Ronald H Peat
Love brought its tail of pains, its long static beam of thorns, and we close our eyes so that nothing, so that no wound will separate us.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.
— Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don’t need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes!
— Francois Nars
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
— Walter Scott
With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
There is no shortage of external inspiration. Open your eyes and look and you’ll be dazzled by it. But it’s nothing if you fail to see the magic, wonder and potential that resides within.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
She laughed. ‘See? You can do philosophy!’ He rolled his eyes and shook his head. ‘Don’t insult me.
— Alex Scarrow, The Infinity Cage
How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?
— Faraaz Kazi
As we got closer to Montauk, she seemed to grow younger, years of worry and work disappearing from her face. Her eyes turned the color of the sea.
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
Your eyes have the colour of the moon
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
If blood can produce money through rituals or the so-called human sacrifice, then it is the basis on which we live, so it is very essential to save and protect it from the fiendish eyes of blood sucking predators.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
My own eyes try to sleep, but they don’t. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer.
— Anonymous, The Qur’an / القرآن الكريم
God’s eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
— Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
She narrowed her eyes and concentrated on his mouth. Name. He wanted her name. She had to think about it for a second before she remembered. Great. She must have hit her head. Which, duh, explained the headache.
— Larissa Ione, Pleasure Unbound
With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes — one of the tragedies of married life.
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?
— James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
A cat’s rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
— William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside
If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he’ll never see anything.
— Franz Kafka, The Castle
Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.
— Thomas Moore
Before marriage keep your eyes wide open, after marriage keep them half closed.
— Ivana Trump, The Best is Yet to Come: Coping with Divorce and Enjoying Life Again
You’ve been smoking again, haven’t you? Your eyes look like road maps and you’re in full bastard mode.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman, Ashes to Ashes: Screenplay
True love is the person you lay your eyes on that you will be with forever.
— Addisa Irving
Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write.
— Avijeet Das
His eyes were that colour you can’t see in the rainbow. Indigo.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Harley’s eyes widened in horror, and a low moan of fear escaped his mouth. The back alley was filled with a vision from Hell.
— Alan Kinross, Longinus the Vampire: Redemption
Extremities are flawed. Moderation is ideal, save for one occasion.So damn these eyes that weep too much.This mind that thinks too much. But never this heart that loves too much.
— Kamand Kojouri
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
— Albert Einstein
…who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children’s eyes…?
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.”After all this time?””Always, ” said Snape.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Some days my thoughts refuse to silence themselves, and I feel like I’m walking around in darkness reaching for a stretched hand. I sometimes close my eyes to listen for that still small voice to steer me down a sound and narrow path.
— Terry a O’Neal
I rolled my eyes, trying to keep my eyes off his body, just the sight of his abs or arms was enough to make me want to get naked and let Carlo take over anything he wanted.
— Holly Hood, Polar
We keep our eyes tightly shut and complain that there are no lights.
— Debasish Mridha
…we take care not to touch each other in public, nor do we look into each other’s eyes except furtively, because Ivan must first wash my eyes with his own, removing the images which landed on my retina before his arrival.
— Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina
I forced my eyes open and saw the image that’s haunted me every day for the past years of my life. And every day, in my nightmares.
— Liz Thebart, Walk Away
Perhaps just to have loved was enough – just to have seen this world, and known it, through the eyes of love.
— Rosie Alison, The Very Thought of You
I want to marry his smile, and if his smile is already married to someone else, then I want to marry his eyebrows and eyes. They’re remarkable. Nobody’s ever made better use of his or her eyes or eyebrows as a rapper than Kurtis Blow.
— Shea Serrano, The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
His eyes burned mine. “You just fight for what you want Katherine. The question is, how much do you want me?” Am I worth the fight? The question was implied and his eyes were begging me for assurance.
— C.S. James, Pink Ice
The sun rolls along up Fourteenth Street and the ghost of a habit turns Cat’s face into the light. She shields her eyes and looks east, half expecting to see her father, a sun-blown shadow in the diorama box of his newsstand.
— Cari Luna, The Revolution of Every Day
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!
— Don Marquis
In someone’s darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
What softened your heart?” I asked softly.”Good music and a friend.”I felt my eyes burn a little and turned from him, blinking quickly to lap up the sting of tears. “Music has incredible power””So does friendship, ” he supplied frankly.
— Amy Harmon, Running Barefoot
I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.
— John Stuart Mill
When pain brings you down, don’t be silly, don’t close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.
— Alanis Morissette
Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?
— Roman Payne
The Old Days, the Lost Days — in the half-closed eyes of memory (and in fact) they never marched across a calendar; they huddled round a burning log, leaned on a certain table, or listened to those certain songs.
— Beryl Markham, West with the Night
When we feel that all eyes are upon on us, it is often difficultto take chances in expressing our individuality.
— Bobbi Brown, Bobbi Brown Beauty Rules: Fabulous Looks, Beauty Essentials, and Life Lessons
Best to have only a few absolutely perfect trait – for example, my hair and eyes and sparkling personality – so you don’t overwhelm.
— Kiersten White, Endlessly
Judge not; the workings of his brainAnd of his heart thou canst not see;What looks to thy dim eyes a stain, In God’s pure light may only beA scar, brought from some well-won field, Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.
— Adelaide Anne Procter
Eyebrows are what give the eyes focus
— Anthony T.Hincks
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
— H. G. Bohn
I close my eyes and think about the only thing that makes life worth the trials: Emma Kingsley, her sweet smile, and the laugh that make me believe in a future.
— Cristin Harber, Only for Him
We cannot see the beauty of life with our eyes closed. Only when we cry with our eyes open can we begin to shed tears of joy.
— Tehya Sky
I live there…where the birds are infiniteeverywherewhere they fleeit’s a place your eyes can wanderbut never seeWhere everyone accepts me, Without any pretenseIt’s a place your mind can picturebut never really comprehend.
— Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest
All bowmen are caught between heaven and earth, born to discovery, choosing to love and raise their eyes high to a future that is apparent only through the strength of their hope.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
And when I look into his eyes there’s a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming home.
— Rebecca James, Beautiful Malice
Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper’s aim.
— Davis Bunn, Lion of Babylon
We’ve resorted to formalities suddenly? Am I to assume we haven’t beenintimate enough for you to call me by my first name?” Despite his casual tone, his eyes suggested so much more. “Perhaps I should rectify that.
— Melissa Lurquette, A Beautiful Bounty
His eyes were deep as ocean, and I found myself drowning in his lies.
— Enna Margo
Keith traced my face, traced my hands and traced my body as the crickets chirped a love song and I lost myself in his eyes that stroked my soul and punctured my heart, like a poison arrow in a shooting star
— Aishabella Sheikh, Lavinia
it’ll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words —the color of a completely closed-in night
— Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep
When we take our eyes off Jesus and only focus on ourselves and our circumstances, we can no longer see Him. God says He will keep us in perfect peace if we keep our eyes on Him.
— J.E.B. Spredemann, Englisch on Purpose
She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned her cheeks: a few poor tears shed by one who never cried!
— François Mauriac, Thérèse Desqueyroux
In kindegarten, he had learned how to make a bruise stop hurting: you pressed it over and over with your thumb. the first times it hurt so much your eyes watered. The second time it hurt a little less. The tenth time, it was barely an ache.
— Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep
— W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
— Carl Sandburg
Men’s eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man’s pleasure.
— William Shakespeare
How can you see into my eyes like open doorsLeading you down into my coreWhere I’ve become so numb without a soulMy spirit sleeping somewhere coldUntil you find it there and lead it back home
— Evanescence, Bring Me to Life
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men … crisis shows us what we have become.
— Bishop Westcott
Why does our host always have tears in his eyes after sex? Due to the pepper spray.
— Ji’ll Schall
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.
— Stevie Wonder
You have to read between the lines, I saw it all in her eyes before her actions came to life, and it’s what wisdom is all about
— Sami Abouzid
That your eyes are like bits of sky seen through the leaves. And that, like the rain washes the mud from the leaves, you… how did he say it? Oh yes. That you wash the darkness from the world.
— Jessica Khoury, Origin
Close your eyes and click your heals three times…because there’s no place like Dome.
— Stephen King, Under the Dome
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Lift up your eyes unto mine air and see the love floating there for I am Paradise and I am everywhere.
— Allen Meece, The Abel Mutiny
“I’m sorry that I spell’d the word I hate to go above you Because” – the brown eyes lower fell – “Because you see I love you!”
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Her eyes beamed over the top of the cup like Peterbilt high beams coming over a hillcrest, full moon rising over a mountain lake with its reflected partner, 747 landing lights coming down onto a runway.
— Dennis Vickers, Between the Shadow and the Soul
Close your eyes and open your mind. You will now see the beauty with your imagination.
— Debasish Mridha
It was tall, made of pale blue light, a creature with long arms and long legs and the shadow of a smile, and above it all, eyes that shone bluer still than its body. “What do you seek in this place?” the shade asked plainly.
— Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Animals will always have sad eyes because they can see into the soul of man.
— Anthony T. Hincks
I promise you that this isn’t going to be our future, Kitten. I will give that to you—a normal life.”Her eyes glistened. “I don’t expect a normal life. I just expect a life with you
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin
Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.
— Luther Burbank, The Harvest Of The Years
Dedication. DEDICATION. That is the only way to become a writer. Write every day. Write until your fingers bleed, your eyes bleed, your soul bleeds. From that blood, stories are born. It’s worth it.
— Belle DiMonté
Lord I thank you for the gift of breath, eyes to see, ears to hear, tongue to taste, nose to smell; mouth to speak, face to smile, voice to sing, body to dance, legs to walk, mind to think and hands to write.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Hard work always pays off in the eyes of a God that never sleeps. . . . Who’s always near and never far
— Edna Stewart
The most crucial thing to know about true love is that, it is not something you can find, rather you need to build it with the person in whose eyes you see your soul.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
The moment you realize your eyes hurt not because of rubbing them, but because of the tears you wasted, on him.
— Athena Kamalei
His eyes were like galaxies, and everyone could get lost in them. How many stars flickered there, no one knew, but every time he glanced upon someone, a new star ignited, a new star was caught in the gravity of his stare.
— Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker
Sometimes she wondered if the shape of his eyes affected how he saw things. That was probably the most racist question of all time.
— Rainbow Rowell
When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears
— Ikechukwu Izuakor
OK then, picture daddy; whenever you’re afraid just close your eyes and picture me. I’ll be all that exists in your world and I promise to protect you.
— S.R. Crawford, Bloodstained Betrayal
It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love. It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous in the only ways we know how.
— Bryana Johnson, Having Decided To Stay
Our eyes are as open as much our minds are.
— Debasish Mridha
My eyes were glued on lifeand they were full of tears.
— Jack Kerouac, Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
My heart had stopped as my world spun around me. I felt all the walls that had begun to crack and crumble slam right back into place as I looked into the eyes of the monster I knew was there all along.
— Alicia Deters, Fading Darkness
If you continue to touch me, ” he said, his eyes flashing, searing into her, “you’re going to end up in this tub with me.
— J.M. Stewart, Whatever It Takes
It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
The eyes witness what is carved on the surface, but the hearts are witness to something much deeper.
— Dixie Waters
I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.
— George Takei
Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is.” I had never seen eyes filled with so much sadness.
— A.B. Shepherd, The Beacon
I am not moved by what I see.; I am moved by what I believe. What I do believe is greater, stronger and mightier than what I have my eyes on. Deep in my heart I do believe, I shall overcome.
— Israelmore Ayivor
If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.
— Kate DiCamillo
We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I’m standin’ there on a balcony in summer air.
— Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift – Fearless: Easy Guitar with Notes & Tab
As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I stretched out on the carpet, eyes glazed over, my heart whirring with frustration and fear, and as my mother’s curse slowly, firmly, pushed my eyelids closed, my body went still. But on the inside I was screaming.
— Kendall Kulper, Salt & Storm
I really want to punch you right now. Maybe even break your nose.” She rolled her eyes upward, seeking calm. “But I won’t because I like this dress.
— Zoe Forward, His Witch to Keep
I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.
— Judy Collins
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
The point is, every book we had could save us in a different way — only, we had to open it. We had to drop our eyes to the page and drink in the words that were there.
— Nova Ren Suma
My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.
— Jazz Feylynn
We’re going to the Underworld, ” Izzy said. She bounced a little as she said it, her eyes bright and her tone implying that “the Underworld” was akin to “Candy Land.
— Rachel Hawkins, Spell Bound
We have to pray with our eyes on God not on the difficulties.
— Oswald Chambers
He will be sorry for the way he treated you, Don’t you worry about that. Focus on your growth and watch his eyes gaze in sorrow as he knows, he was the bastard that made you strong.
— Nikki Rowe
I believe that life always has a way of surprising you, for better or for worse, ” he looks at me once more, his eyes holding mine captive in its strong hold. “And that you always have a choice as to how the story ends…
— Mara Joaquin, Lost in the Sky
Not too bad, reminds me of some kind of meat dip, best if you close your eyes and pretend it’s something else.
— Patricia Hamill, Fearless
A desert lily need not turn jealous eyes toward the common violet.
— Colleen Houck, Reawakened
When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read.
— Mary Street, The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy
My woman has a wandering eye;Yarrow, thyme and thorn.She eyes the ocean and the skyWhile stitching sails, forlorn.I got a kiss, and then a tearAs she bade me go;But on the waves, my heart’s in fear:My woman’s in the know.
— F.T. McKinstry, The Gray Isles
Life is magical for those whose hearts are loving, minds are full with joy, and eyes that are dancing with beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
You look at me with them eyes of yers, an I look at yer lips… an all I can think about is what it’ud be like to kiss you.
— Moira Young, Blood Red Road
Even if all our senses fail to function − eyes turn blind and ears fail to listen − the heart will still listen, see and beat.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
— Paul McCartney
I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.
— James Avery Fuchs, Gasoline and Winter
Sealing your lips makes your eyes talk Truth creeps beneath your lame feet’s walk Knees stiffen when blood vessels stalk A pounding heart’s lies hard as rock
— Munia Khan
So if I was to choose? Then I choose complicated, ” I said, with a nod of finality. I met his eyes again in a silent challenge.“I choose you.
— C.J. Duggan, The Boys of Summer
Their eyes drifted directly behind her. At the same time she felt the presence of a rather large, imposing figure, then the sudden heat permeated the air around her. He’s behind me, isn’t he?
— Madison Thorne Grey, Magnificence
Look at yourself—Are your eyes Twinkling? Is your heart Dancing? Are your lips Smiling? If yes, then you are truly enjoying Life.
— RVM
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
— Gavin Newsom
There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.
— Bram Stoker
He can’t take his eyes off the stars, but I can’t take mine off his face.
— Amie Kaufman, This Shattered World
I lost my freedom for so many years. Until he entered my cage. Him, with the black eyes and blacker soul.
— Pepper Winters, Pennies
The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
— Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
No one is ever lost. No one needs to be saved. Open your inner eyes and see it all existing in harmony and love.
— Raphael Zernoff
All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.
— Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko
Many of the most powerful things in life are not tangible. All it takes is for you to close your eyes to see.
— Shannon L. Alder
Look with open eyes and you will see the beauty of the waterfall.
— Anthony T. Hincks
I’m not ugly but I’m not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren’t green or brown, but a muddle. I’m not thin but I’m not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I’m short
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
The years of his life had not been gentle, and there was something untamable about him; his eyes seemed to say everything and nothing at all, almost as if they spoke a dying language few could appreciate or even understand.
— Chris Nicolaisen, The Life and Death of the Ericsons
When I look into your eyes I see everything I want in this world and that is never going to change.
— Stephen F. Campbell
It is so easy to have our eyes opened, but then close them again, pretend it never happened, and go back to doing what has always been done.
— Jason M. Steffens, Never on Sundays: A Novel
Bethany stepped out of the carriage, eyes fixed in rapt wonder at Ellingsworth manor. Gossamer paper lanterns hung from the trees, linking the drive like stars from the heaves. Strains of enchanting music emanated from the house…
— Brooklyn Ann, Wynter’s Bite
I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.
— Vanessa Carlton
Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened half indifferent they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
— Albert Einstein
Archaeological discoveries made in Egypt and in the Near East in the past hundred years have opened our eyes to a spiritual and cultural heritage undreamed of by earlier generations.
— Samuel Noah Kramer
Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out.
— Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
— Anaïs Nin
I wanted it to be you. I wanted your eyes to be locked with mine during every fear and tear experienced throughout my lifetime.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
It’s not man’s job to think about whether God exists or not, especially when you know that right in front of your eyes one person is stepping on another’s neck.
— Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound
Oh, Gods.”His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. “The name’s William. It’s a common mistake.
— Ilona Andrews, Bayou Moon
If ever it’s necessary to ride the bandwagon, it’s done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
I cannot tell whether diamonds appeared in his eyes or mine as the shine of adoration became the icon one sees in history, a Byzantine sparkle, Medieval armor against all odds.
— Alice Shapiro
Vidalia, open those eyes and look at me. As with all things, we do this together, Darlin’.
— Julia Mills, Vidalia
Bicyclist’s Philosophy of Life…”It’s a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground.
— Susan Vreeland
Hello, Darkness, ” Caine said.Gaia’s face fell. Her bloody, feral grin faded to be replaced by lips drawn right with fear. Her killer blue eyes widened as she looked at Caine who was no longer Caine.”Nemesis, ” Gaia said.
— Michael Grant, Light
Luke’s eyes were on a government position in DC, while all Natalie wanted was help make the world a sweeter place.
— Ophelia London, Kissing Her Crush
The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.
— Salmon Rushdie
Look back on Time, with kindly eyes -He doubtless did his best -How softly sinks that trembling sunIn Human Nature’s West –
— Emily Dickinson
Of course they were eaten, � he retorted, his eyes flashing in cold humour. “Trolls generally aren’t exactly renowned for being vegetarians.
— Adele Rose
Help me, ” I sobbed. “I beg you, help me.” My eyes burned, butno tears came. I had lost the basic human ability to weep. Human…Iam no longer human. “Destroy me. Take pity and send me on my way.
— Carol Oates, Something Wicked
His eyes alone set her insides ablaze.The blue looked dark as midnight at the moment, a twinkle in his eyes like they held all the stars in his gaze. He had a solar system inside of him, a universe of secrets Serah yearned to explore.
— J.M. Darhower, Reignite
i am a museum full of artbut you had your eyes shut
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
This is going to sound crazy, but… from the moment I first set eyes on you I haven’t been able to stop thinking about you.
— Leigh Fallon, Carrier of the Mark
I saw with my eyes people with and without purpose, people with the purpose know where they are going and the others follow the flow!?
— Deyth Banger
There are two kinds of diamonds in this world: The diamond itself and the eyes full of love!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called “seeing”. Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.
— R. N. Prasher
Listen to me, Ember. I couldn’t hurt you. I can’t.” Hayden settled his eyes on me. They were softer than I’d ever seen. “I love you— I’ve loved you since the first time I saw you.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Cursed
To see yourself do not look in the mirror, but look to the eyes of the people
— Mohammed Sekouty
Music should strike fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
— Beethoven
Her eyes widened, convinced by the size of it that his shaft was fully erect. She blinked several times. No, she was wrong. The bulge moved, growing as she watched it.”Not that I mind ya staring, love, but I’ve got an appointment I must keep.
— Michelle M. Pillow, Love Potions
Just at that moment she glanced towards him and saw him smiling at her, his eyes lingering on her with warmth and an indefinable something else. Her heart caught in her chest
— Emily Arden
But I believe in true love, you know? Idon’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
— John Green
The only god visible to my eyes is “My Mother
— sarav
He sat beside the window in the dark, with his eyes closed. Hearing to the sound of the rain. The whisky in his glass burnt his throat, while the smoke of his cigarette filled his lungs and the fire inside his heart consumed his soul slowly.
— Akshay Vasu
Oh, i feel my eyes are swollen. It’s like either sobbing all night or someone punch me in the eyes.
— Ariel Seraphino
As I gave my hand to one and then another of the Winter Knights, hoping to forget Kian’s kiss in the arms of the other dancers, I could feel Kian’s eyes piercing through me, their flame-tinged ice searing through my soul.
— Kailin Gow, Forever Frost
I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time–I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.
— Charlotte Brontë
No matter what it is, if you don’t move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work. Television rules that out.
— Mark Helprin, Winter’s Tale
Open your eyes to new opportunities
— Sunday Adelaja
Dowling Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
— Ben Jonson
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
— Marilyn Monroe
I respect traditional people – they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.
— Criss Jami, Healology
My eyes may not utter words, but they speak volumes when I look at you.
— Anthony T. Hincks
A new day is born in gleaming fire, rippling pools of light racing in from the horizon. It is one of the most breathtaking sights you can see. And we miss every second of it. We only have eyes for each other.
— April Daniels
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
— Groucho Marx
It was the first time her eyes had really met mine and to be honest I think there was more warmth between the lamb chops in the freezer.” Daniel meeting Felicity in Cousin Felicity and the Eels of Misty Point.
— Kaal Kaczmarek, Cousin Felicity and the Eels of Misty Point
Trust” are the eyes you need in the shadow of death.
— Alin Sav
Those who really love you don’t mean to hurt you and if they do, you can’t see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
— Holly Black
The starlight, which seemed strangely bright tonight, wasn’t starlight at all. Instead, Lucifer’s demons had gathered high in the firmament above. It was their eyes that shone like stars through the wildfire smoke.
— Lauren Kate, Unforgiven
She looked up into Wharick’s ethereal face, her eyes drifting across his features. Close your mouth, Keirah. Her brain finally caught up with her face’s reaction.
— Madison Thorne Grey, Magnificence
You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper’s hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.
— Michael Anthony, Mass Casualties: A Young Medic’s True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq
The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.
— Simon Sinek
Bravery is looking into her eyes without shivering and compromising.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I have two ways of loving You: A selfish one And another way that is worthy of You. In my selfish love, I remember You and You alone. In that other love, You lift the veil And let me feast my eyes on Your living face.
— Rabia Al-Adawiyya
Just as the brain has its own way of operating, the ears another, the eyes yet another, and the body, fingers and toes yet another means, our intuition can be further divided into separate skills.
— Catherine Carrigan, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness
As beauty lies in eyes of beholder, struggling lies in reaching further.
— Santosh Kalwar
Don’t ever touch her again, ” Hayden growled.Kurt looked up, eyes wide. “Are you threatening me— over her? I’m like your brother, Hayden!” “Not anymore.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Cursed
She opened her eyes with a gasp. “I love you.” He had tears running a path down his face. He nodded. “Back at ya, pretty child. So, so much.
— Debra Anastasia, Bittersweet Seraphim
Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.
— Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants
Take a deep breath and feel the joy of life. Open your eyes and see the beauty of a dancing leaf.
— Debasish Mridha
The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.
— Edith Wharton
There are times when the unseen can be even more dangerous than what our eyes behold.
— Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Elementals
I closed my eyes to hug him tighter and give him that elusive feeling of unconditional love and complete safety. The feeling we seek but, in this life and in this world, perhaps never quite find.
— Katherine Reay, Lizzy and Jane
The church’s task is to open people’s eyes so that they can see that there is nothing higher than God
— Sunday Adelaja
In God’s eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.
— Stephen Colbert
The man smiled. “Harry is unique, for he was born with a special gift of sight, with eyes able to see things that are unseen. He has talents to move matter by the sound of his voice.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Halloween Nightmares
I closed my eyes then but it was too dark to clearly see that vision that my body would conjure out of blood and the inside of skin when light hit it, but I’d seen it so often, examined it so carefully, that it wasn’t hard for me to call to mind.
— China Miéville, This Census-Taker
I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Never let the light in your eyes fade…You are beautiful just the way youare..
— C.A. Keith
She looked into Kirsten’s eyes and wondered how it is that a soldier fights and a savior suffers, but a woman, in lying down, rules everything.
— Rebecca Coleman, The Kingdom of Childhood
Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street – smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.
— Tyne O’Connell, Latest Accessory
Gabriel’s green eyes sought Will. “It was demon pox, wasn’t it? You know all about it, don’t you? Aren’t you some sort of expert?”“Well, you needn’t act as if I invented it, ” said Will.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
Have clean hands in whatever you do. Integrity is doing the right thing when people are watching you and still making it right when they keep their eyes off.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
That little glow of comfort lasted me right through the evening but was gone when I woke up next morning. Wakings are the worst times–almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on to my heart.
— Dodie Smith
I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast – a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can’t prop my eyes open anymore – sometimes rather late.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Forget yesterday – it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow – you haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift – today.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
You’re the sunrise to my eyes every morning.
— Liam Levi, Thousand Sinful Kisses
The thought of my mother talking to me about sex makes me want to stab my eyes out with a fork, gouge even deeper and scramble my brains to prevent the conversation from ever happening.
— Addison Moore, Ethereal
Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sundays.
— B. Devine, Unconquered
Taking a sip of the hot chocolate he’d made her, she met his gaze, those eerie eyes of endless black impenetrable, unreadable. “Max?” “Yes?””Will you remember me?”His heart broke into a thousand pieces. “Always.
— Nalini Singh, Bonds of Justice
What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination.
— Stephen Helmes, From 12 to 6 (More Nightly Visits)
They all looked at her with tears in their eyes and gratitude on their faces, for she had made them see that they should not fight each other, but that family is the one thing that was worth fighting for.
— Mina Marial Nicoli, The Magic of Avalon Eyrelin
His green eyes blazed with desire; such a different look than I’d known before. Chase had studied me, reading my feelings. Tucker was only trying to see his own reflection. Disturbing on several levels.
— Kristen Simmons, Article 5
He kept his eyes on mine, his gaze unblinking, and I stared right back into the blue. He moved almost imperceptibly and in the space between a heartbeat his lips touched mine.
— Sarah Alderson, Hunting Lila
What haunts me most about her eyes is the pain I put in them…In the corner of my dark soul, her passion is dark like a kohl.She is giving new meaning to these feelings…She is complete, she is whole.
— Dinesh Kumar Biran
See more than your eyes can see.Hear more than your ears can hear.Do more than your hands can do.Go further than your feet can go.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You are most beautiful when your eyes are glowing with kindness and joy.
— Debasish Mridha
She blows a heavy breath, her eyes so full of tears that if she blinked, they’d fall.And then she does.She blinks. They fall. I break.- Cam
— Jay McLean, More Than Forever
Those yellow eyes had seen the thing Ruby hid, even from herself. And when two people see a thing, for better or worse, it becomes real.
— Cynthia Bond, Ruby
But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?
— Paulo Lins, City of God
Forgiveness in God’s eyes is unconditional; no matter what you have done, you can receive forgiveness.
— E’yen A. Gardner, Extreme Makeover
It’s frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Blind minds are worst than blind eyes. That you have eyes does not mean that you have vision. Visionaries do not look they see whlie people look.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
In times of turmoil, void or suffering, closely stays the images mirroring the lived, far seems the unknown to be; pick yourself a lens to see through, your eyes touch the distant mountains and the lived past disappears into ponzo illusions.
— Pavitraa Parthasarathy
Sam’s eyes studied my lips and I studied hers. We each leaned in closer until our foreheads were touching. It felt like currents of electricity were running through the two of us, making me feel like I was going to melt from the intensity.
— Keary Taylor, What I Didn’t Say
I doubt it is your styleNot to get what you set out to acquireThe eyes are on fireYou are the unforecasted stormBrianstorm
— Arctic Monkeys
your brown eyes are beautiful.don’t believe the hype.
— Alexandra Elle
The eyes were larger and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.
— Ross Thomas, Briarpatch
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
— Henry David Thoreau
See the world through the eyes of your inner child.The eyes that sparkle in awe and amazement as they see love, magic and mystery in the most ordinary things.
— Henna Sohail
He had a hungry look in his eyes and it frightened her.
— Kassandra Cross, Carrie’s First Time: Taboo Older Man Younger Woman First Time Erotic Romance
And so it is inevitable that the day has come when we write about privacy with such nostalgia, analysing it as we would some unearthed fossil of a creature our human eyes had never fallen on.
— Aysha Taryam
Sometimes your eyes are not the only place the tears fall from.
— Faraaz Kazi
Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing of loss. Ours was a world of eternal spring, until the summer came.
— Roman Payne, Hope and Despair
If only they could see the things we hide behind those shining eyes and blissful smiles.
— Akshay Vasu
It is the final person we see reflected in our eyes that really matters; we wonder who is she and why is she here? To find ourselves truly, it is the goal we have all set for ourselves.
— Michelle Shen
When you buy use your eyes and your mind not your ears.
— Czechoslovakian proverb
Three magic words come out of your mouth; Maybe accidentally pronounced. Your eyes said, I love you; with Bliss as my ears have heard it.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Seeking higher ground is not a destination, but an elevation. Wings up, eyes shut open.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”
Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism
I’ll tell you a secret: Close your eyes and open your heart.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight.
— Robert Frost
It was his eyes, so challenging and with a piercing look about them. They were eyes that trusted in nothing and they made her uncomfortable around him, self-conscious.
— Gemma Malley, The Declaration
Be an artist, see the beauty not only with your eyes but also with your heart.
— Debasish Mridha
I can not bear to see such woes of the heart in the eyes of my beloved.
— Rebekkah Ford, Beyond the Eyes
His eyes met mine. Brown eyes. I couldn’t read anything and as he turned away I realised he didn’t intend to tell me anything either.
— J.A. Rogers, Breeding Plan
I wanted to apologize but what could I say? I’m sorry but I’m afraid my fangs might freak you out. Oh and by the way my eyes sort of glow in the dark when I get excited. I hope you’re cool with that.
— Heather Jensen, Blood and Guitars
God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it’ll take us next.
— Carrie Underwood
The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.
— Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger’s Daughter
…each of us from the seance stood alone. Like so many pillars of salt, we had tried to look back and failed. And in the eyes of the others who shared the pale, flat sky with us, there was sometimes suspicion, sometimes a little fear.
— Joan Lowery Nixon, The Séance
At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?
— Ashim Shanker, Don’t Forget to Breathe
I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
Where you are coming from doesn’t matter but where you are going does. Hence look forward and not backwards. Your eyes are placed in front of you for a reason. Your eyes only look backwards for special references. Keep your eyes on the road.
— Oscar Bimpong
There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind envisions. The final thought is just a matter of interpretation, coloured by our experiences.
— Anirban Bose, Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls
He glanced up once, eyes bored. “Please stop talking. I’m trying to eat.
— Kate Avery Ellison, The Curse Girl
My prayer; Lord, open my eyes to see good visions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I found the only place I ever wanted to live again in this girl, right her in my arms. I leaned back just barely, ran my thumb from her brow o the tip of her nose and stopped at her lips, loving the way her eyes fluttered. “I’ll always come to you.
— Shelly Crane, Smash Into You
Tears are the words that the heart could not express, silent truths the eyes do confess.
— Aisha Mirza
I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud
— Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes
What we touch with our fingers is false. What we feel through our perceptions is real. What we see through our eyes is an illusion, but what we see through our heart is real.
— Debasish Mridha
He gazed into eyes the color of a summer morning sky and sighed. It felt as if his soul had just come home.
— Grace Willows, Into My Heart
I’m a little panicky when I realize he’s not here. It’s a lot easier to push down my doubt when he’s with me. When I can see those eyes the color of melted chocolate and hear his deep voice that falls over me like a warm blanket on a cold night.
— Rick Yancey
Beauty exists, even in unlikely places. The key isn’t to open your eyes but to open your heart.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
When your heart is open, your eyes see the beauty that is all around you.
— A.D. Posey
What is Divine duty compared to the kiss of a women…what is Destiny compared to the soft touch of a lady….what is the will of a God compared to the eyes and voice of the one you love.
— Takini
There was never one truth. Even the Higgs could still be used to prove opposing theories, its mass falling between them on a chart. Besides, I told myself, my breathing heavy, eyes widening until they bulged, I was post-truth.
— Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
— Vasily Kandinsky
Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed…living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes!
— Nathan Parks, The Nephelium (The Eternals)
That’s when it hit me; my sunglasses were buried in the grave where my Talal lay. Yes, my sunglasses were buried with him. But oh, how I wish my eyes had gone with him instead.
— Zeina Kassem, Crossing
She had stars in her eyes and galaxies in her veins
— Rosie Perry
I paid bills and bought groceries and got my eyes checked while the days crumbled away like debris from a cliff face. Life a continuous backing away from the edge.
— Emma Cline, The Girls
Why does he have such an unnerving effect on me? His over-whelming good looks maybe? The way his eyes blaze at me? The way he strokes his index finger against his lower lip? I wish he’d stop doing that.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
I want to have the eyes of an adult to see the world as it is, but I more desperately want to have the heart of a child to make certain that I never forget what it could be.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If I wrote the word flower, would it still grow like a flower?If I wrote a poem concerning a river, would the water still flow in the eyes of the reader?
— Zakariya Amataya, No Women in Poetry
It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Why were you watching me change?” I explain. “Uh, ’cause I’m a guy?” He flips the pillow and slaps it, fluffing it. Then he rolls over and closes his eyes again.
— Miranda Kenneally, Catching Jordan
The Blessing #1:May your eyes be profitable, may your ears be dutiful, may your tongue be insightful, may your hands be successful.May your mind be fruitful, may your heart be blissful, may your soul be joyful, may your life be peaceful.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i’d use to paint a million pictures.
— Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Her eyes were like the sea before a storm on the Carolina coast.
— Kami Garcia
Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn’t make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear… then his message was easily understood.
— Brandon Andress, And Then the End Will Come!: But Five Things You Need to Know in the Meantime
Our eyes met and our souls caught on fire.
— Nikki Rowe
Roses are for our eyes to adore, but they mean nothing unless you give them to someone you love.
— Chris Paynter, Survived by Her Longtime Companion
God, if you ever loved me, open my eyes for me when I’m being this stupid! (Ron)
— Kim Harrison, Once Dead, Twice Shy
I can’t stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it’s the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.
— A. J. McLean
Have I told you that you are my every dream?”Her eyes shimmered. Her voice went smoky with emotion. “Not recently.
— Nancy Gideon, Remembered By Moonlight
Further to this, Ove has the cat’s resentful stares to contend with. Something in its eyes reminds him of the way Sonja used to look at him.
— Fredrik Backman
I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.
— Tammara Webber, Between the Lines
And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
The fear of loving a dog, is knowing one day they’ll be gone and you could never find eyes that express all that you feel.
— Robert M. Drake
His eyes meet mine, and for a moment everything seems like it’ll be okay. More than okay, actually.
— Collette West, Game Changer
Learn to eat with your enemies all around you but most of all thank God for his presence. Keep your eyes fixed to the presence of God in the presence of your enemies.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
When you look at the stars.. your eyes are time machines
— Waqas Rabbani
Perhaps it was the approach of death that had opened his eyes wide and made him see so clearly.
— Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.
— Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
And it’s the ‘Word of God’ that turns the rocks in the mouth to loaves on the tongue. That fills our emptiness with the true and real good, ‘that makes the eyes see’, the body full of light.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
i closed my eyes and i loved you … dreams are such beautiful things
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Children close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to example.Even New Genx Moms close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to realize their mistakes eventually. Think, Act Wise before it’s Late.
— Ilaxi Patel, Guardian of Angels: A Practical Guide to Joyful Parenting
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
— Ernest Hemingway
Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
The way your curious eyes were chasing mine when I stood in front of you, I knew I had known these eyes before.
— Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings
For me, sleep equaled death. How was closing your eyes and losing consciousness any different from death? What separated temporary loss of consciousness from permanent obliteration?
— Lena Dunham
Take away your eyes from your past failures, current limitations, and future fears. Be hopeful, believe in yourself, be bold, and move on…
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. “I thought I heard something.””Yeah, well, guess what? I’m a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!
— Becca Fitzpatrick
Why? As much fun as a hospital sounds, I’d rather spend the evening dancing with an amazing, smart, funny, interesting, beautiful girl who has the most incredible green eyes I’ve ever seen. Sophie, will you go to the dance with me?
— Leslea Wahl, The Perfect Blindside
Still, she stood looking fabulous like a princess should, licking her blood red lips the moment she laid her eyes on the beautiful prince. It was appetite on first sight.
— Cameron Jace
Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call “red” is the same thing that I call “red”?
— Jaclyn Moriarty, A Corner of White
The simple rule to abide by and become excellent is that “Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure eyes you used to see it when it was done by you”. Look forward and do better than you did earlier!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
I loved those eyes , even though they never saw my pain , I loved those ears , even though they heard my stories
— Ratish Edwards
This above all makes history useful and desirable it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
— Livy
Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for your face.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
There is something more powerful than any army. Something strong enough to topple kings, and even Darklings. Do you know what that thing is?”I shook my head, inching away from him.“Faith, ” he breathed, his black eyes wild. “Faith.
— Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
There’s beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that’s harder than others.
— Sarah McLachlan
Through the eyes of a happy girl lies guilt and destruction.
— Britany Lopez
I sit up and stare with eyes closed, perceiving the infinity of this dimension, so grateful to experience this, comfortable with the idea of this journey either ending shortly or continuing forever.
— Michael Sanders, Ayahuasca: An Executive’s Enlightenment
A thing or one’s eyes are not maya (deceit), but the attraction that occurs due to the sense is maya!
— Dada Bhagwan
She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.
— Stuart Jaffe, 10 Bits of My Brain
I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Look upward to himLook upward on our goalKeep your eyes on himLook upward to him
— April Nichole, Eyes to Heaven
…I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who’s that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say.””I’d rather have something to say.
— Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
They massacred the servants before killing my parents. I saw it all through a knothole in the wood. As I said, my eyes were better back then.
— J.R. Ward, Dark Lover
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.
— Dorothy Dix
He sounds exactly like Moody, ” said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. “‘Constant vigilance!’ You’d think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls….
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Keep your eyes open. Look at the world without prejudice, pay attention to your sources, and decide for yourself where the truth lies. That is the greatness of the path I’m offering you.
— Javier Sierra, The Master of the Prado
We held each other’s gaze for a long moment and I willed my breath to come evenly instead of the uneven gasps that I felt. Trent’s eyes drifted down to my lips and then back up to my eyes again before we wrenched our eyes away from one another.
— Amanda Leigh, Scarred
Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed for 8 hours.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of herfather’s other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as henodded sadly and spoke sombrely and pocketed the silverwarewhen he thought no one was looking
— Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
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
People say that your life flashes before your eyes before you die, but they’re wrong. It’s not your life that passes before you, it’s the regrets that do.
— Elise Valenti, We the People
There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others’ ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.
— Helen Keller
Angel I’ve loved you since the first time I laid my eyes on you. It’s only ever been you. It will always be you, marry me?
— Kirsty Moseley, The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window
My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible.
— Thomas Sweeney, The Harem
Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf.
— Scott Lynch, Rogues
Okay”, I breathed. “Then what will it take?” I was completely out of my element. Begging a girl to go on a date with me. This was fucked up.””Miss it.”I stared into her cold, blue eyes and knew I’d just met the kind of girl books are written about.
— Tarryn Fisher, Thief
She had eyes that bore deep into his heart, bringing a sweet warm wave of assurance within; eyes that cradled him in the crisp black-and-white world on the other side of the picture, where life was, at least, beautifully lit.
— Stephen Mosley
… the courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the ‘other side’…
— Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
Your eyes gave it away. You don’t want the old stuff. You want to have the new and improved Well-being, go with the right people and they’ll be right for you.
— Auliq Ice
We need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.
— Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
I look into your eyes and I’m sure that some divine artist dipped her brush in the same soul and used it to paint us both.
— Cristen Rodgers
A passionate look, touch or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a serious yoga and other therapies
— Karthikeyan V
Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for her. And as a result, in the eyes of everyone, she had everything… and yet she always, always felt she had nothing. No one.
— C. JoyBell C., Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948
Their eyes persecuted him everywhere, eventually following him all the way into the darkness around his bed and into his dreams, like a madness that threatened to overpower him.
— Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
She didn’t say anything—at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they each had a thousand tongues talking, each in a language I didn’t speak.
— J.X. Burros
He stares at me, not saying a word. I stare right back, lost in his eyes and determined to get my point across. If he wants to have a staring contest, he’ll lose, hands down. I know a good thing when I see it.
— J.C. Patrick, The Reinvention of Janey
I’m watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it’s an optical monologue.
— Mat Johnson, Loving Day
Look deep into your own eyes so you may see your greatness and recognize the gifts that you were uniquely placed on this planet to learn from, to share, and to teach.
— Monika Zands
Tears sting my eyes once more, building up and rolling over my cheeks with the heat of a dying star. Isn’t that what death is? It’s forgetting. It’s letting go. We make peace with the dead to say goodbye.
— Ryan Galloway, Biome
Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn’t stop.
— Christy Hall, The Little Silkworm
My body covered with flames of betrayal and my eyes filled with tears of pain, I do not feel good.
— Tanmaya Guru
People who aren’t in that space will be like ‘So how was your trip?’ and you don’t even go into it. ‘I guess it was pretty good.’ And then you talk to other people who have been there and they know exactly why your eyes are glazed over.
— Jimmy Chin
He pinned me in place with a direct look, his dark brown eyes smoldering. “You’re Mary Jane, ” he said finally. “And you have all these Flash Thompsons and Harry Osborns hovering around you, trying to make a move. Because…you’re basically amazing.
— J.M. Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
— Elizabeth Taylor
Happiness lies even in ltiny ittle butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
Be patient with those who can’t see your vision, because sometimes it takes time for eyes to adjust to the light.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones, Giants At Play: Finding Wisdom, Courage, And Acceptance To Encounter Your Destiny
You have to dig deep in yourself to dream. You have to close your eyes to see.
— Debasish Mridha
The Tanakee are thought to possess strange, almost supernatural powers.Their eyes are described as large and hypnotic.” From Tribe of the Teddy Bear
— J. Joseph Wright
His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
As long as the eyes of our faith are fixed upon our troubles we will not find joy. Until our minds consciously move the Lord from our peripheral vision into the narrow corridor of our focus, joy will elude us.
— Paul Tautges, Pray about Everything: Cultivating God-Dependency
Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn’t turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Cupping her chin, he said, “Sexiest female I’ve ever seen.” One side of her mouth turned up with a smile while her eyes twinkled. “Even gray and leathery?” “Ever so bonny.
— Lisa Carlisle, Knights of Stone: Bryce
When the night arrives, I often look up at the bright sky only to close my eyes and see the light within. Everything above so is below.
— Nikhil Sharda, Sans Destination
The eyes can often lie, not see what is essential. But the heart, never.
— Anushka Bhartiya
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
— Auguste Rodin
I’m always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can’t see anything…the spell of ignorance
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Her eyes filled. “He forgot my birthday, two weeks ago, ” she said. “It was the first one he had ever forgotten, in nineteen of them.” Nineteen! Nineteen from thirty-five leaves sixteen!
— Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat
We were in ways I can’t seem to grasp. We moved like fluid, scattering our love throughout each other. We moved along, out of our eyes and through our veins. It was unintentionally and in turn, unconditionally.
— Dominic Riccitello
Once we open our eyes to the infinite magic that the universe has in abundance, we are sure to be enthralled by what we see and this miraculous creation gets us closer to our dreams and to the world as a whole.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Those blue pools still wavered between her eyes and mouth. “I’m gonna kiss you now, minou.”She might have nodded. She might have blinked. One for yes, two for hell yeah.
— Kate Meader, Irresistible You
His eyes widened. Oh, hell, you think I’m going to let him bite me? No way. It’s too risky and way too guy.
— C.C. Hunter, Born at Midnight
In god’s eyes we are fucking naked… did you know that??- God is fucked screw up person!
— Deyth Banger
show me your eyes and i should tell who you are and what would your future
— Mohamed Khadra, Regulatory Failure and the Global Financial Crisis: An Australian Perspective
The longer I looked into his eyes the more I felt that he was leading me down a road that I was determined not to follow.
— Shawn Kirsten Maravel, Volition
Can’t sleep?” he murmured, the corners of his eyes crinkling. She blushed, but held his gaze. “Don’t wish to sleep.” “Mmm. I can help with that.”… “Do you have anything particular in mind?” “Everything.
— Erica Ridley, The Brigadier’s Runaway Bride
their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other’s presence, a new serenity.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
I let my eyes drift down to his. “I like you rumpled. It’s very…sexy.
— Katrina Abbott, Crossing the Line
Start Now, close your eyes for few minutes and then open them… so far it’s going great… Now just think your three favourite things which you enjoy watching, like for example I like True Crimes, True Stories and so far Suspense.
— Deyth Banger
Borrow my eyes so you may see your greatness and recognize the gifts that you were uniquely placed on this planet to learn from, to share, and to teach.
— Monika Zands
Look into My eyes and tell me “Do you hate me ?
— pavankumar nagaraj
I’m a good liar. A great one. And to be a great liar you have to live your lies, to believe them, to the point that when you tell them to yourself enough times, even what’s right before your eyes will bend itself to the falsehood.
— Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools
If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Chaol, ” he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian’s eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. “Treat her well.
— Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
Easy, man.” He slowly turned and his dark eyes narrowed. “Don’t mess up your house. Or my face. You like us both. We’ll deal with how to handle this as soon as you calm down.
— Laurann Dohner, Moon
He stiffens against me, pain written all over the mess of a face. He grabs my face in his hands. Holds me. “It’s not over. We’re not through, Jacinda.” His eyes blister, glitter darkly.”I’ll find you. I will. We’ll be together again.
— Sophie Jordan, Firelight
She narrowed her gaze. “I don’t trust you to keep your eyes closed.”“Smart woman, ” he said. “I wouldn’t trust me, either, if I were you.
— Christina Brooke, London’s Last True Scoundrel
If you write anything with using same color of ink on same colors page.Then don’t blame eyes for not able to read.
— Yaganesh Derasari
She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he knew it would be more than friendship. He was too young to name that feeling then. But love…above all relationships knows no age.
— Viraj J. Mahajan, Derivation of Life
A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.
— Zack Love, Anissa’s Redemption
To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Iverson glanced down at my white-knuckled grip, then at my eyes. A hint of a smile more subtle than a single flick of snow crossed his face, and his eyes nodded approval.
— Allen Eskins
If you’re frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you’ll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way.My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire—no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.
— Beth Revis, The Body Electric
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
— Wassily Kandinsky
Don’t become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
We have eyes and we have nervesesWe have tails we have teethYou’ll all get what you deservesesWhen we rise from underneath.
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Registration Day’ by Gavin Gunhold (1899— ) Toronto Review of Poetry, 1947On registration day at taxidermy schoolI distinctly saw the eyes of the stuffed mooseMove.
— Gordon Korman, A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag
He turned his gaze upon her, and their eyes not only met, the pupils shook hands, exchanged business cards, and sat down for tea together.
— John Moore
Unless we close our eyes we are always deceived.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelleas and Melisande
She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were black as a moonless December night and reflected the electric lights like stars.
— Elizabeth Wein, The Pearl Thief
I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I’d cry for a week.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I would have followed anyway. I was in a Norah state of mind.
— Angela Richardson, All the Pieces
Who needs eyes when you can hallucinate?
— Raymond Pettibon, Raymond Pettibon: Homo Americanus: Collected Works
My eyes were closed, they’re open now
— Damien Rice
I believe women are too hard on themselves. I believe that when you love someone, she becomes beautiful to you. I believe the eyes see everything through the heart. Nothing in the world feels as good as resting them on someone you love.
— Katherine Center, Everyone Is Beautiful
The worst thing you can do to your loved ones is judging them through the eyes of others.
— Nitin Yadav
My dear poetry, There’s a likenessbetween your eyes and the stars–the same charming brilliance, my eyes have ever laid upon.
— Ymatruz
I remember Queen Victoria’s advice to her daughter. Close your eyes and think of England.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.
— Dylan Thomas
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins in the eyes of most people is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.
— Thomas Huxley
Its not the eyes, that makes the visualization of the external world possible, but its the perception out of the awareness field. Your eyes are the same, but you view two person differently.
— Roshan Sharma
Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.
— Lynsey Addario
…we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possible, live. We covet what our neighbours have and want more of the same.
— Karen Baker-Fletcher, Dancing with God: The Trinity from a Womanist Perspective
Of how much light will my destiny’s eyes have to become aware until it will come true in death?
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
…the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don’t disfigure me in your eyes – because you know the price I pay for loving you …
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
My eyes burn with tears, and I’m so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I’m not and making mistakes that I didn’t have any fun making.
— Penelope Douglas, Punk 57
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