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Quotes About Eyes

There is such fear and exhaustion in their eyes that Erich says to Roger Erdman one morning, I find it difficult to look at them. I agree, says Roger. Because it could be us on those hard benches. And that's what we're most afraid of - to look out there and see ourselves.
~ Rose Tremain
The tiger's roar filled the cave with thunder. Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Bring up the great bull-buffaloes, the blue-skinned herd-bulls with the angry eyes. Drive them to and fro as I order.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But does not talk my talk – I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth, But not the soul behind.
~ Rudyard Kipling
He danced the way he made love, with passion and tenderness and spirit, communicating with hands and eyes the most subtle messages, tenderly making up for Lila's awkwardness. In his lashes and his hair, mist clung in tiny diamond drops. She could not take her eyes from him.
~ Ruth Wind
His face was smiling, his eyes glittered in the late autumn moonlight, and he emitted a flickering aura that might have triggered seizures in an impartial but sensitive child, and yet he was strangely depressed.
~ Ry? Murakami
My views are the fleeting observations of a 'travelling scholar'9 rushing through life in the greatest haste. People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Back for the summer, eh?" he inquired. "Say, you certainly look awful. What are those big circles under your eyes?" "Glasses," I said evenly. "What the hell do you think they are?
~ S.J Perelman
She looks shaken. You can see the panic in her eyes. The idea of a crumbling cosmos has disturbed her. This is because the ed of everything is impossible to face in the absence of love.
~ Salman Rushdie
His eyes are a hazy swirl ofgray, like a thick mass of clouds gathering before an impending storm
~ Elle Kennedy, The Deal
Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
~ Paulo Coelho
Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength.
~ John Armstrong
Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. And their eyes spoke of death.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at one the polecat and the fox. His head, supported by a long and flexible neck, issued from his large black robe, balancing itself with a motion very much like that of the tortoise thrusting his head out of his shell.
~ Alexandre Dumas
One!" said the count mysteriously, his eyes fixed on the corpse, disfigured by so awful a death.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Like all primitive natures, she adored everything that appealed to her eyes and her ears.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Then he raised his eyes towards the ceiling, but withdrew then, immediately, as if he feared the roof would open and reveal to his distressed view that second tribunal called heaven, and that other judge named God.
~ Alexandre Dumas
So, summoning up all the power of her will, she tried to shut her eyes, but this operation of the most fearful of our senses, an operation that is normally so simple, at that moment became almost impossible to carry out, so strongly did eager curiosity struggle to push back her eyelids and discover the truth.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Is it possible, he said, to be in love not with someone but with their eyes. I mean, with how eyes that aren't yours let you see where you are, who you are.
~ Ali Smith
He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
~ Alice Hoffman
They say the truest beauty is in the harshest land and that God can be found there by those with open eyes.
~ Alice Hoffman
You ever put your arms out and spin really, really fast ? Well, that's what loves like. It makes your heart race. It turns the world upside down. But if you're not careful, if you don't keep your eyes on something still, you can lose your balance. You can't see what's happening to the people around you. You can't see your about to fall.
~ Alice Hoffman