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Quotes About Gaze

She had to take from him again, on this, one of his long looks, and she took it to its deepest, its headiest dregs.
~ Henry James
Her eyes] had taken hold of him straightaway, measuring him up and down as if they knew how; as if he were human material they had already in some sort handled.
~ Henry James
She stood there looking, consciously and rather seriously, at Mr. Ransom; a smile of exceeding faintness played about her lips—it was just perceptible enough to light up the native gravity of her face. It might have been likened to a thin ray of moonlight resting upon the wall of a prison.
~ Henry James
They once more, in spite of this vagueness, exchanged a look—a look that was perhaps the longest yet.
~ Henry James
All my life had taken refuge in my eyes, which the procession of events appeared to have committed itself to keep astare
~ Henry James
The light was in her eyes.
~ Henry James
at Tiryns I stood in the shadow of the Cyclopean man and felt the blaze of that inner eye which has now become a sickly gland;
~ Henry Miller
Beauty is not the reflection of your image, but the reflection of the seer's inner vision.
~ Debasish Mridha
Staring into someone's eyes for a long time is psychic. At first it's very strange and scary - scarier than the first time you have sex. Then you begin to relax, and the person you're looking at may become very beautiful. As you look into their eyes, you may see them change sex or race. You can see the child in an old person and a young person may appear ancient. Just looking into someone's eyes for a long time can be trippier than taking acid.
~ Steve Abbott
He said he didn't like my kind and I was filled with the delirious expectation that he would identify me as a common species - that there were others like myself. I controlled my excitement, but he seemed to sense it - his gaze wavered uncertainly.
~ Steve Aylett
When the abyss gazes into you, bill it.
~ Steve Aylett
When somebody notices me in the slightest, I can feel the eyes - boom-boom - as soon as they pass.
~ Luke James
De afar?, noaptea se uita pe fereastr?.
~ Mihail Bulgakov
And this time with ardent lips so lightly grazing he kissed her trembling mouth, and then answered her pleas, in language dazing with sweet temptation; once again those mighty eyes were fixed and gazing deep into hers. He set her blazing. He gleamed above her like a spark or like a knife that finds its mark.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.
~ Milan Kundera
The eye: the window to the soul; the center of the face's beauty; the point where a person's identity is concentrated; but at the same time an optical instrument that requires constant washing, wetting, maintenance by a special liquid dosed with salt. So the gaze, the greatest marvel man possesses, is regularly interrupted by a mechanical washing action.
~ Milan Kundera
Supo desde entonces que las miradas son como una carga que te aplasta por el suelo, o como besos que te absorben la fuerza; que las arrugas que surcan el rostro han sido grabadas por el estilete de las miradas.
~ Milan Kundera
The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.
~ William Shakespeare
In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours.
~ Bryan Appleyard
Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.
~ William Shakespeare
My eyes may not utter words, but they speak volumes when I look at you.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
Her gaze met his, her blue eyes filled with confusion and terror – and love. If Julian hadn't already been in love with her, that would have done it.
~ Pamela Clare, Hard Evidence
He kept his eyes on mine, his gaze unblinking, and I stared right back into the blue. He moved almost imperceptibly and in the space between a heartbeat his lips touched mine.
~ Sarah Alderson, Hunting Lila
I look at youAcross those fires and the dark.
~ Weldon Kees