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Quotes About Eyelids

Rimed and sparkling with sugar, the wrestler lay like some child's flaccid sweetmeat in death, and the dogs licked his eyelids.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Thus upon mine restful couch I lie, Bathed with the dews of night, unvisited By dreams--ah me!--for in the place of sleep Stands Fear as my familiar, and repels The soft repose that would mine eyelids seal.
~ Aeschylus
Another longish pause. His eyelids were getting heavy. "Ever kill a man, Marlowe?" "Yes." "Nasty feeling, isn't it?" "Some people like it." His eyes went shut all the way. Then they opened again, but they looked vague. "How could they?
~ Raymond Chandler
It's so dark, he thought, that I could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids--
~ Richard Connell
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
~ Alfred Tennyson
O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
~ William Shakespeare
The night is the color of the eyelids of the dead.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Sleep shall neither night nor dayHang upon his pent-house lid.
~ William Shakespeare
O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my sense in forgetfulness?
~ William Shakespeare
O sleep! O gentle sleep!Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids downAnd steep my senses in forgetfulness?
~ William Shakespeare
Somebody said my name, asked if I was okay. I didn't answer, the sound of the commotion dying around me as the heavy monkey of sleep rested its warm, hairy ass on my eyelids.
~ David Wong
the heavy monkey of sleep rested its warm, furry ass on my eyelids.
~ David Wong
Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.
~ David Zindell
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers. Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone?
~ Eoin Colfer
To get rid of swelling... I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in the freezer and put them on my eyes.
~ Shay Mitchell
Nothing chases away the sand or the memories engraved on the back of my eyelids. They play on a continuous loop, with smells and sound and sorrow.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
What have you got on your eyelids?" "Greater self-esteem!
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The ancient pages rose among the others, palisaded with strange letters and words, the faint script hardly more readable than the footprints of birds. He read until his eyelids drooped. But as his head dropped, he fancied he caught the sharp savor of sap beneath the chalky dust of the pages, or the heavy perfumes of blossom from the orchards of plums and pears and apples.
~ Lawrence Norfolk
There are times when it is comforting to sleep with sunlight on your eyelids. And times when quiet talk at night is better than sleep, no matter how weary you are.
~ Robin Hobb
Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth.
~ Anthony Burgess
Owls have three eyelids. Their eyeballs are not spheres but elongated tubes. A group of owls is called a parliament.
~ Anthony Doerr
He also had a condition that was referred to as granulated eyelids and it caused him to blink more than usual, as if he found creation slightly more than he could accept.
~ Ron Hansen