Quotes About Observation

I imagine looking at the room through a stranger's eyes. Books everywhere, stacks and stacks, shelves and bookcases, stacks atop each shelf, I in the creaky chair that hasn't been reupholstered since I bought it in the early sixties. I have been its only occupant; years ago its foam molded into the shape of my posterior. The accompanying ottoman holds two stacks of books that haven't been disturbed in years, except for semiweekly dusting.

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.

Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes, and meditate to know if the world's true or lies, may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhile with hungry eyes that can't be satisfied shall take a look at the world in broad daylight.

I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.

Leemos mal el mundo, y decimos luego que nos engaña.

You never look at these flowers; therefore they become stale to you. If you would only look into them, then your reading and writing would go to the winds." The Devotee

Goodness,' Myrnin said quietly. 'I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.

This feeling, that she was the invisible witness to another person's solitude - a kind of ghost - nearly drove her mad for awhile.

literature has long since discovered and documented this place of which I thought myself to be the first inhabitant,…

it felt, almost, as though I were looking at it all through the wrong end of a telescope and seeing things from a greater distance than I usually did, perhaps because I myself was not especially the focus of anyone's attention.

It was her own capacity for story telling that made her see her own hand in what happened around her.

I said it must be interesting to be able to see people without them seeing you. It seemed to me that children are often treated in the same way, as witnesses whose presence was somehow not taken into account.

When the traffic is at a standstill, some of the smaller cottages look dwarfed by the cars. It is possible for the people in the cottages and the cars to look at one another.

My neighbour from the plane was a good foot shorter than me

he was observing something while I, evidently, was entirely immersed in being it.

Writers need to hide in bourgeois life like ticks need to hide in an animal's fur: the deeper they're buried the better.

I remember exactly what you were wearing, [...] Dark suit, red tie, gold watch, and a blond woman.

As a kid, he would have given just about anything to touch a naked Barbie, but he'd never been lucky enough to get within ogling distance. Now that he was afforded a good look at her, he discovered she had a scrawny ass and her knees made weird crunching sounds.

I was half lawyer; I always noticed the loopholes.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.