Eyes Quotes

"The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always"

Willa Cather, Author

"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit"

Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor

"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul"

Ovid, Poet

"I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"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"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below"

George Orwell, Author

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"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, Novelist

"The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes"

James Joyce, Novelist

"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, Author

"Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ"

Thomas Merton, Author

"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, Writer

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"When you are old and gray 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"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself"

William Blake, Poet

"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, Artist

"To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes"

William Blake, Poet

"You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"The eyes those silent tongues of love"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"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, Poet

"When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again"

Robert Browning, Poet

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