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Quotes About Eyes

Ah, those eyes, he said. They can speak volumes, but sometimes even I cannot translate the language. And we never did invent enough signs for deeper thoughts and feelings.
~ Mary Balogh
She bit her lower lip hard and blinked her eyes. There was such wistfulness and longing in his voice. Oh, she was going to give him back his eyes, or the next best thing, if it took her the rest of her life to do it.
~ Mary Balogh
His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud from his cigarette.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock : You do yourself an injustice. The features are given to man as the means by which he shall express his emotions, and yours are faithful servants. Watson : Do you mean to say that you read my train of thoughts from my features? Sherlock : Your features, and especially your eyes. Perhaps you cannot yourself recall how you reverie commenced?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It moved in the shadow of the hedge, silently and furtively, a dark, crouching figure, dimly visible against the black background. Even as he gazed back at it, it had lessened its distance by twenty paces, and was fast closing upon him. Out of the darkness he had a glimpse of a scraggy neck, and of two eyes that will ever haunt him in his dreams.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.
~ Arthur Golden
The eyes] are the most expressive part of a woman's body.
~ Arthur Golden
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.
~ Arundhati Roy
It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.
~ Arundhati Roy
His eyes were polite yet maleficent, as though he was making an effort to be civil to the photographer while plotting to murder his wife.
~ Arundhati Roy
But around her, the air was sad, somehow. And behind the smile in her eyes, the Grief was a fresh, shining blue. Because of a calamitous car crash. Because of a Joe-shaped hole in the universe.
~ Arundhati Roy
I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.
~ Augusten Burroughs
His eyes are so clear and blue that nothing but clichés enter my mind.
~ Augusten Burroughs
but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.
~ Ayn Rand
Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.
~ Ayn Rand
And no power on earth could tell whether their blankly indifferent eyes were shutters protecting hidden treasures at the bottom of shafts no longer to be mined, or were merely gaping holes of the parasite's emptiness never to be filled.
~ Ayn Rand
Doc Webster's eyes rolled briefly, like loaded dice, and came up snake eyes.
~ Spider Robinson
The thought of such a turn of events brought the flame of vengeance to the monarch's eyes, and his iron fingers clutched the air, as if already closing around the throats of his beloved subjects.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Fear not only has big eyes, Mr. Tichy, it has a small brain.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Her eyes are the first indication of her infirmity, or rather that she resides in more than one world. (Dementia)
~ Stephanie Kallos
Are you planning to stay? He looked down at her. That, he stated, his voice very low, depends largely on you. Patience looked into his grey eyes- and froze. Every muscle was paralyzed, all the way to her toes. The idea that he was amusing himself, without any real intent, died- slain by the look in his eyes. The intent in his eyes. It could've have been clearer had he put it into words.
~ Stephanie Laurens
Steel shards, his eyes held hers. Breathless, Patience blinked up at him. His face was hard, a warrior's mask. Waves of anger and aggression lapped about her. When it comes to distraction, he informed her through clenched teeth, nothing in this world could top you. His words were invested with meaning- a meaning she didn't understand.
~ Stephanie Laurens
Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.
~ Stephen Chbosky
he was resting his eyes, which means he was sleeping but didn't want me to change the channel.
~ Stephen Chbosky