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Quotes About Sight

To The Hand" What the eye sees is a dream of sight what it wakes to is a dream of sight and in the dream for every real lock there is only one real key and it's in some other dream now invisible it's the key to the one real door it opens the water and the sky both at once it's already in the downward river with my hand on it my real hand and I am saying to the hand turn open the river
~ W.S. Merwin
On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
~ Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot
Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare
~ Unknown
I have the Sight, I should have seen it all, but some things are too dark to forsee. These are hard times, and England is a country of sorrows. No mother can be sure that she will not bury her sons. When a country is at war, cousin against cousin, brother against brother, no boy is safe.
~ Philippa Gregory
He has such kind eyes." "Certainly he has eyes, but they do not have the power of emotion, only of sight.
~ Philippa Gregory
La vista del entendimiento, ten por cierto, empieza a ver adecuadamente cuando la de los ojos comienza a perder su fuerza, y tú todavía estás lejos de eso.
~ Platon
The darkness was crisp, as though scraped of sight and smell by winter's razor.
~ R. Scott Bakker
For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?
~ Rachel Carson
Such poisoning of waters set aside for conservation purposes could have consequences felt by every western duck hunter and by everyone to whom the sight and sound of drifting ribbons of waterfowl across an evening sky are precious. These
~ Rachel Carson
But I will tell you what I learned after I lost my sight... I walked through rooms that had once been familiar, my arms outstretched, and was fouled and thwarted by every obstacle in my path. What I learned then, Ester, is a thing that I have been learning ever since... The distance between things are vast, he said. They are vast.
~ Rachel Kadish
In secret I have longed for it, for blindness can never suffice to extinguish the sight of the terrors of this broken world.
~ Rachel Kadish
His eyeballs look like he bought them in a joke shop.
~ Denis Johnson
A Highlander in full regalia is an impressive sight—any Highlander, no matter how old, ill-favored, or crabbed in appearance. A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored young Highlander at close range is breath-taking.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The phrase "Blessed are those who have not seen but have believed" floated through his head. It was maybe not the believing that was the blessing; it was the not having to look. Seeing, sometimes, was bloody awful.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Looking at his horses," I said, putting a hand over my stomach in hopes of suppressing the resounding borborygmi occasioned by the sight of food.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Well, you're speaking to the only man in Scotland who has a terrible cockstand at sight of a plucked chicken." I spluttered in my brandy and
~ Diana Gabaldon
The eye is much more dynamic than any camera.
~ Brian Binnie
Podía arder Barcelona entera, que Dalmau solo la veía a ella.
~ Unknown
Yes, there are stars," I lie and I give them to him--there are no stars--but there must be some behind the clouds and they must be shining inside-out tonight. I love stars, but I hardly ever notice them. I guess when you're blind, you realize how much you forget to see.
~ Unknown
The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it.
~ Israel Zangwill
So our efforts led us to become those perfect objects of a sense whose nature nobody quite knew yet, and which later became perfect precisely through the perfection of its object, which was, in fact, us. I'm talking about sight, the eyes; only I had failed to foresee one thing: the eyes that finally opened to see us didn't belong to us but to others.
~ Italo Calvino
When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.
~ Dale Renton
I saw a spaceship fly by your window. Did you see it disappear?
~ Damien Rice
I see London, I see France I see Emily's underpants.
~ Dan Gutman