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Quotes About Eyes

If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.
~ Samuel Beckett
The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? From time to time. There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.
~ Samuel Beckett
Here closed in death th' attentive eyesThat saw the manners in the face.
~ Samuel Johnson
to my office till very late, and my eyes began to fail me, and be in pain which I never felt to now-a-days, which I impute to sitting up late writing and reading by candle-light.
~ Samuel Pepys
I am in as sweet communion with Christ as a poor sinner can be; and am only pained that He hath much beauty and fairness, and I little love; He great power and mercy, and I little faith; He much light, and I bleared eyes.
~ Samuel Rutherford
Each turned his face with a ghastly pang,And cursed me with his eye.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I hope the only blue you ever have in your life is the blue in your eyes. But if those sad times come—which they're bound to—you remember to keep a song in your heart. Making music when you're happy, it got the power to heal others. But making music when you're sad, it got the power to heal you.
~ Sandra Kring
You can never truly appreciate all the sounds of nature until you close your eyes. Similarly, never be afraid to close one door, so you can hear your dreams calling.
~ Sanita Belgrave
Stand to face me beloved And open out the grace of your eyes
~ Sappho
I want to say something to you but shame disarms me' 'If you longed for the good or beautiful and your tongue were not concocting evil shame would not cover your eyes. Rather you would speak about the just
~ Sappho
So she shut her eyes and channeled her sister. A beautiful bitch. A manipulative queen bee. The girl who'd ruined her life.
~ Sara Shepard
I know the stars by their names, Aldebaran, Altair, And I know the path they take Up heaven's broad blue stair. I know secrets of men By the look of their eyes, Their gray thoughts, their strange thoughts Have made me sad and wise. But your eyes are dark to me Though they seem to call and call– I cannot tell if you love me Or do not love me at all. I know many things, But the years come and go, I shall die not knowing The thing I long to know.
~ Sara Teasdale
Your eyes drink of me, Love makes them shine, Your eyes that lean So close to mine. We have long been lovers, We know the range Of each other's moods And how they change; But when we look At each other so Then we feel How little we know; The spirit eludes us, Timid and free– Can I ever know you Or you know me?
~ Sara Teasdale
I gave my first love laughter, I gave my second tears, I gave my third love silence Through all the years. My first love gave me singing, My second eyes to see, But oh, it was my third love Who gave my soul to me.
~ Sara Teasdale
Child, child, love while you can The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man; Never fear though it break your heart— Out of the wound new joy will start; Only love proudly and gladly and well, Though love be heaven or love be hell.
~ Sara Teasdale
I know the stars by their names, Aldebaran, Altair, And I know the path they take Up heaven's broad blue stair. I know the secrets of men By the look of their eyes, Their gray thoughts, their strange thoughts Have made me sad and wise.
~ Sara Teasdale
When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you have to go to the bathroom?
~ Pat Cooper
We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.
~ Christian Marclay
No - the light in Tamani's eyes was much more than a reflection. It was the fire that melted her anger and devastated her resolve, every single time she saw it.
~ Aprilynne Pike
We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.
~ Michele Bachmann
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again.
~ Richard O'Brien
Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.
~ William Shakespeare
Those blue eyes that had stopped my heart the first time she looked at me found me in the crowd." -Cage
~ Abbi Glines
I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
~ Bai Ling