Quotes About Sight

Of course I can see you. I'm not blind, you know. Oh, but you are. You just don't know it.

You have to admit he's good looking," Bree pressed, leaning against my kitchen counter. "Of course I admit it. I'm not blind," I said, busily opening cans.

corneas? Why arent you off somewhere gazing

There are only just so many times you can look at something before you no longer see it.

Just for a moment, Ethan felt his view of life, of the world, stretched painfully. He had never realized that something so frightening could also be beautiful. That a sight could strike fear into his heart and at the same time make him feel privileged to have seen it.

If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.

I have a sensation of losing track of time. In front of me, the mountain floats up with the swell. Drifts away amid tendrils of mist. And then comes back into sight.

quando passaron dentro col favore degli occhi di colei

her bedside.  She shut her eyes tightly against the sight

If we were blind for one day each year, how we would enjoy the other three hundred and sixty-four.

A pretty sight; it would have surprised me, if my capacity for surprise wasn't flattened.

People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight of monkeys eating their own excrement turns some people's stomachs. They might not mind so much if monkeys did not- so grotesquely- resemble human beings.

My eyes are true and as delicate as a hummingbird's in the day; but they are nothing worth boasting of by starlight.

Cloudy, cloudy is the stuff of stones," wrote the poet Richard Wilbur, and even in the atomic era it was hard to see how the physicist's swarming clouds of particles could give rise to the hard-edged world of everyday sight and touch.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

Beauty is where the beheld butterfly disappears from sight.

Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

To say someone is a vision is to pay them a great compliment. If you say that they look a sight it is a grave insult.

Your sight will be lost. It is not too late. You are humble still, pure. Let go of this fascination with earthly riches. You have so much more than they.